MANHATTAN — A man was stabbed in the stomach during a fight at an East Harlem bodega Friday morning, police said.
The 54-year-old man, whose name was not immediately released, and the suspect started fighting inside 148 E. 103rd St., near Lexington Avenue, at 12:50 a.m., an NYPD spokesman said.
The brawl spilled outside where the suspect, a man in his 20s, plunged a sharp object into the victim's gut, police said.
The victim was treated at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center got five staples to his stomach to close the wound, and some stitches for a cut on his chin, police said.
The suspect, who is about 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighs roughly 150 pounds, fled and was not immediately arrested, police said. He was last seen wearing a gray jacket over a red hoodie, police said.
