Man stabbed trying to break up fight in Turtle Creek

TURTLE CREEK, Pa. — Police in Turtle Creek say a man who was trying to break up a fight was stabbed four times by a 13-year-old boy over the weekend.

The incident occurred on Highland Avenue, police said.

“There was a knife that came out and he started stabbing that man,” explained Lenika Young.

That was the end result of what police say started out as a fight in a Turtle Creek neighborhood.

What was more concerning was why police said the man was stabbed.

Police said an 18-year-old was upset that the man tried to be a good person and break up a fight, so the 18-year-old went home to get his 13-year-old brother.

Police said when the two boys came back, the 13-year-old stabbed the man four times.

Young said the boy’s 18-year-old brother helped keep the victim down while he was being stabbed.

“My husband actually intervened that whole episode by telling that little boy not to stab that man in the head,” Young said. “I was just thinking I hope my husband be okay and my neighbor.”

Channel 11 spoke to the victim. He is out of the hospital and doing okay, but declined to appear on TV.

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