Grandmother stabbed while trying to break up fight in Brooklyn

Saturday, August 11, 2018
Grandmother stabbed while trying to breakup fight in Brooklyn
Naveen Dhaliwal has the latest on the stabbing.

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, Brooklyn (WABC) -- The search is on for the person who stabbed an innocent grandmother as she tried to break up a fight in Brooklyn.

It happened near the corner of Stuyvesant Avenue and Kosciuszko Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 12:45 a.m. Friday.

Derick Waller reports from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

Police remained on the scene hours later investigating.

Police said the 61-year-old was trying to break up a fight between some young men.

During that fight, she got stabbed in the chest.

The commotion and sound woke up neighbors.

"About midnight I heard a bunch of fighting and I decided to go back inside," one neighbor said.

"In the summertime, about twice a week, we have this kind of thing," another neighbor said. "There was also a shooting at the bodega up the street and someone was shot to death."

She was taken to Kings County Hospital where she was treated for what appeared to be non-life threatening injuries.

The young men who were fighting apparently ran away.

So far, there are no arrests.

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