LAS VEGAS (AP) - Police say a man was stabbed in the head in north Las Vegas while trying to defend a homeless woman who was being verbally harassed by another man.
Police Lt. David Gordon says a man was harassing a woman near Main Street and Owens Avenue just before midnight Sunday when a man passing by tried to intervene.
Gordon says the man stabbed the passerby in the head and ran away. He was arrested soon after.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports (https://bit.ly/2x6yI0O) the passerby was hospitalized with injuries that were not life-threatening.
Police did not release the identities of those involved.
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Information from: Las Vegas Review-Journal, https://www.lvrj.com
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