Teenage Girl Stabbed in Duluth, Suspect in Custody
DULUTH - Two individuals were assaulted in Duluth early Saturday morning.
According to the Duluth Police Department, officers arrived to the 10 block of East 5th Street and found a 17-year-old female who had a stab wound to her chest and had been hit in the head with a blunt object around 12:00 a.m.
Police say they also located an 18-year-old male victim who had been hit in the head with a blunt object.
An intitial investigation provided that both victims had been assaulted by a suspect with a wooden baseball bat and the female victim had been stabbed by a second suspect with a knife.
The female was transported to St. Luke's Hospital for a life-threatning injury and after surgery, is now listed in serious condition.
The male victim was interviewed and released.
On Saturday, a Douglas County Sheriff's deputy stopped to assist someone having car trouble near Polar, WI.
According to police, the driver was a 17-year-old juvenile male suspect they were looking for in the regards to the assault.
The male was transported to the Douglas County Jail and lodged pending extradition.
The juvenile was formally charged with Aiding and Abetting 1st Degree Assault and 3rd Degree Assault.
Police are still looking for the second suspect.
The case is still under investigation.
