Jan. 10--A 37-year-old man was stabbed in the neck on the platform of the Jackson Red Line station Saturday night.
He was fighting with two men and a woman at the subway station in the 200 block of South State Street at about 10:10 p.m. when one of the men pulled out a box cutter and stabbed him in the neck, police said.
He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.
Prior to the stabbing, a witness saw the 37-year-old fighting with a younger man in a sweatshirt. At one point, they wrestled with each other on the edge of the platform dangerously close to a passing train.
The 37-year-old pushed the other man to the ground and yelled, "You know me?" After that, the man in the sweatshirt left the scene and headed down the stairs to the Blue Line.
He came back moments later with a box cutter and two other people, a man and a woman. The four began to scuffle, and at one point one of the men stabbed the 37-year-old in the neck, according to police.
As the ambulance arrived, the 37-year-old was lying on the floor of the platform holding his hands to the back of his head; emergency workers got him onto a stretcher and wheeled him out, leaving blood smeared on the platform. One passenger exited a train and stepped right over it.
Police officers had to stand in a circle around the blood to keep passersby from stepping in it.
