Stamford Police are investigating a triple stabbing Thursday that occurred in the city Wednesday night following the completion of a Stamford High School basketball game.
According to Lt. Diedrich Hohn, authorities were called to the area of 44 Cowan Street at approximately 9:35 p.m. for reports of an 18-year-old that had been stabbed. Upon arrival, police discovered the teen with a serious laceration, as well as multiple cuts and bruises to his head, Hohn said.
The victim reported that, as he has left the game at the high school, a group of six to seven black males in dark clothing had followed him and, as he was exiting the rear entrance to the football field, pepper sprayed him and began to physically assault him. He was punched, kicked and stabbed, and then the males fled in an unknown direction, according to Hohn.
While the victim was transported to Stamford Hospital and police conducted an investigation at the high school, the hospital notified authorities of the arrival of two additional victims in the Emergency Room who had also been stabbed. Hohn said the victims, 18 and 19 years old, relayed that they had also been leaving the basketball game at the high school when they were pepper sprayed by a group of males and assaulted in similar fashion to the initial victim.
Both sustained numerous non-life threatening injuries to their heads and backs and both required several stitches, but Hohn said both were uncooperative with police during the investigation.
Hohn urges anyone with information to contact the Stamford Police Detective Bureau at 203.977.4417.
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