VENTURA : Man, 19, Stabbed Outside Liquor Store
A 19-year-old man was stabbed on Pierpont Boulevard in Ventura after an altercation outside a liquor store on Seaward Avenue, authorities said Wednesday.
According to police, two suspects approached the victim as he was entering the liquor store about 7:45 p.m. Tuesday. The two men, believed to be between the ages of 20 and 22, asked the victim where he was from and a fight ensued, police said.
“Some guys drove up in a car and yelled at some locals,” said a clerk at Surf Liquor who saw the scuffle. “They were chasing them all around with baseball bats.”
According to police, the suspects chased the victim on foot east on Pierpont Avenue. They caught up with the victim and one stabbed him once in the back before they both fled, police said.
The victim, whom police did not identify, flagged down a Ventura Police Department patrol car. He was taken by ambulance to Ventura County Medical Center, where he was treated for one stab wound to the back and released.
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