Jersey City Heights man tells police 2 men stabbed him on street as he walked home from bar
Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 12:38 PM By Michaelangelo Conte/The Jersey Journal
after he was accosted for a cigarette, reports said.
Officers at Christ Hospital spoke to the victim, who said he left a bar at Webster Avenue and Congress Street about 3 a.m. and was walking home when two men asked him for a cigarette at Bowers Street and Webster Avenue, reports said.
He said he was getting a cigarette out when one of the men punched him in the face, reports said, adding that as he struggled with that man, the second man stabbed him in the stomach with what looked like a kitchen knife.
The victim walked to his girlfriend?s home on Griffith Street and was driven to the Palisade Avenue hospital and was transferred to Jersey City Medical Center.