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Police Pull Car Over, Find Stabbing Victim Inside

Posted at 3:10 AM, Feb 18, 2013
and last updated 2013-02-18 03:10:51-05

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – An officer with the Grand Rapids Police Department pulled a car over for speeding early Monday morning, and found that the passenger had been stabbed.

It happened at Division and Fulton at around 2:19 a.m.  Police stopped a car for a speed violation, and the driver told the officer he was taking his passenger to the hospital because he had just been injured in a stabbing.

According to a lieutenant with the GRPD, the victim was not cooperating with investigators.  He told them that it happened at a nearby bar, but when officers checked it out, they found no evidence that a stabbing had occurred.

The victim was taken to the hospital and is expected to be okay.  The incident remains under investigation.