LINCOLN SQUARE — A 20-year-old man and 18-year-old woman were stabbed near the Western Brown Line station in Ravenswood around 4:30 p.m. Thursday, according to police and witnesses on the scene.
Danielle, who did not want to give her last name, was working at the first Thursday night Lincoln Square Farmers Market of the season when she said she heard people running down the "L" stairs yelling, "Help us!"
Danielle, who is trained in first aid, said she saw the blood, grabbed paper towels then ran toward the injured couple and "started plugging holes."
She said the man appeared to be stabbed five times, in his chest, hand and abdomen. The woman was stabbed in her left elbow and was in better shape, walking and talking.
Patty Wetli details what happened Thursday evening:
The two victims had been involved in an "altercation" with two men and one woman, said Officer Bari Lemmon, a Chicago Police spokeswoman.
Someone in the group then stabbed the couple, though it was unclear exactly who the attacker was, Lemmon said. No one was in custody as of 7 p.m.
Danielle and police said that the victims knew their attackers.
The couple ended up under the "L" tracks in the alley between the Brown Line and Lincoln Avenue, where police later set up crime scene tape.
The man was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center and the woman was taken to Swedish Covenant Hospital, according to Officer Thomas Sweeney, Chicago Police spokesman.
The CTA issued a statement saying Brown Line trains were bypassing the Western stop due to police activity around 6 p.m.
Asked how she was feeling after the incident, Danielle said, "I smoked my first cigarette in three years."
The rest of the farmers market seemed relatively undisturbed despite the police presence and an ambulance backing into the alley.
Robert Eustace, who runs the Marilyn's Bakery booth at the farmers market, said, "It's amazing what can happen when there's a lot of people around and nobody sees anything until someone screams."
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