Updated: June 17, 2016 at 5:49 p.m.
This post was written by Hatchet staff writers Robin Eberhardt and Catherine Moran.
A 22-year-old man was stabbed early Wednesday morning at 25th and I streets and taken to GW Hospital, according to a Metropolitan Police Department report.
The victim reported to the Metropolitan Police Department that he was “accosted” by an unknown man after he left a party, according to the report. He told police that he remembers “feeling a sharp pain in his side” and passing out on the sidewalk in front of a townhouse at 2520 I Street, according to the report.
The stabbing occurred at 3:37 a.m., according to an alert MPD sent Wednesday morning.
A person unknown to police called the victim’s cousin on the victim’s phone. The victim’s cousin arrived and found him “covered in blood,” according to the report.
Thinking he fell down, the cousin took the victim back to his house. The cousin observed “deep lacerations” to the victim’s abdomen, side, chest and left arm, and he took the victim to the GW Hospital, according to the report.
University spokeswoman Maralee Csellar said in an email Wednesday that MPD did not notify the University about the incident, and the University Police Department did not respond. The University did not issue an alert about the stabbing.
This post was updated to not include the name of the person who reported the crime.