Man treated for stabbing linked to assault of girlfriend, police say

No charges have been filed against the stabbing victim.

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WARREN — A 20-year-old Saratoga Avenue Southwest man was treated Sunday night at the emergency room at Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital for a stabbing that police say was motivated by the victim’s assaulting his girlfriend in the maternity ward of that same hospital earlier that day.

The man was bleeding profusely when officers arrived on Iddings Avenue Southeast about 7 p.m., according to a police report. He had been stabbed in his face, eye, arms back and chest, but the wounds didn’t appear to be life-threatening, police said.

A witness said she heard a commotion in her yard and heard a man say, “You are gonna get it for putting your hands on my sister after she just had a baby,” police said.

Police said the Saratoga man and the other man fought, with the Saratoga man being stabbed with a pocket knife.

An officer spoke with a woman at the hospital who said the 20-year-old man was visiting her in the hallway of the hospital after she recently had given birth to their child, and he pushed her down and slammed her head into a wall during an argument Sunday afternoon.

Security personnel escorted the man from the hospital around 6:45 p.m., police said.

Witnesses on Iddings said they saw the fight, which occurred after two men in a sport-utility vehicle drove up, and the driver got out and confronted the Saratoga man.

The hospital had no record of the 20-year-old man Monday afternoon, and no charges had been filed against him in Warren Municipal Court as of late Monday afternoon, although police called the man a suspect in a domestic- violence crime.