Jersey City man knifed in stomach when trying to stop a couple fighting

By Michaelangelo Conte/The Jersey Journal
April 06, 2010, 6:00AM

A Jersey City man was stabbed in the stomach with a 12-inch knife on Saturday when he tried to intervene in an argument between a man and woman at the Montgomery Gardens housing complex.

Police responded to the housing complex after the 3:15 p.m. stabbing but couldn't find the victim so they went to the Jersey City Medical Center, where they found the 29-year-old Montgomery Street man being prepped for surgery, reports said.

The victim said he came across the arguing couple in a parking lot and got between them, reports said, adding that the man stabbed him in the left side of his stomach. He said he was driven to the hospital by a Bayonne woman and his wound was not life threatening, reports said.

Anyone with information about the stabbing is asked to call the Jersey City police tip line at (201) 547-JAIL.