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Man stabbed in downtown brawl Beaten, bleeding. Cops say crowd grew to almost 80 people
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Police are also looking into whether nearby businesses caught any of the fighting on their security cameras.
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Police say it’s still too early to know whether alcohol fueled a large brawl in downtown Halifax on Sunday morning, which ended in one man being sent to hospital with a stab wound. Halifax Regional Police Sgt. Reid McCoombs said a 28-year-old man was taken to hospital by paramedics around 2:30 a.m. after officers broke up a crowd of about 75 people at the corner of Argyle and Blowers streets. “We don’t know what the cause was, so we can’t say that this is from the bar scene or if this was something altogether unrelated to alcohol,” McCoombs said. He said there was a “fairly
Corner of Argyle and Blowers streets. JEFF HARPER/METRO
large” fight going on in the street when officers arrived, but wasn’t sure how many people were involved. “It was sort of a fluid thing,” McCoombs said. The victim, who was severely beaten and bleeding from the head, was taken to hospital, where it was discovered he had also been stabbed in the chest. Police say his injuries are non-life threatening. The victim isn’t co-oper-
ating with police at this time, McCoombs said Sunday afternoon, so they have no information on how the fight started or whether he knew his attackers. “It certainly impacts the case,” McCoombs said, adding this makes it even more “vital” for witnesses to come forward with information. He said the fact someone was carrying a knife in the busy downtown area is an “obvious concern” for police and the public, and officers are following up on whether the weapon was seen anywhere else. “It’s too early to even try and speculate at this point where it came from or how it got there,” McCoombs said.