GRPD: Suspect at large after 1 shot, 1 stabbed

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Police are looking for a suspect after  one person was shot and another stabbed in Grand Rapids’ Belknap Lookout  neighborhood.

It happened around 9 p.m. at a home on Newberry Street NE just west  of Coit Avenue NE, the Grand Rapids Police Department confirmed.

A female was shot in the abdomen. A 24-year-old man was stabbed in  the back and had a slash on his forehead, police said. Both were  hospitalized.

The assailant fled on foot, GRPD said. As of 9:30 p.m., no one was in custody.

A K-9 was brought in to try to track the suspect. The 24 Hour News 8  crew on the scene initially counted 13 police cruisers along Newberry  and GRPD’s Forensics Unit later arrived on scene.

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