Man stabbed in chest

YOUNGSTOWN

A Park Hill Avenue man was hospitalized for a stab wound to the chest early today.

Reports said officers were called about 5:50 a.m. to the man’s home, where he told them he was sleeping on his couch when he was awakened by his dogs barking and the slam of a car door.

The victim when he went outside to see if someone was there, a man walked up to him and stabbed him in the chest.

Reports said the man was not very cooperative with officers and did not want medical treatment, but he was taken to a hospital by paramedics anyway.