Long Beach police are on high alert after four separate stabbings in less than 12 hours

Long Beach police are deploying additional resources Sunday after four separate stabbings were reported in a 12-hour period.

According to LBPD, the first stabbing happened in the 2000 block of East Pacific Coast Highway on Saturday at 6:18 p.m.

In that incident, a man was in a physical altercation with multiple suspects when he was stabbed multiple times in the upper body by one of them.

He was transported to a nearby hospital in stable condition, LBPD said.

Hours later, at 2:03 a.m. Sunday, officers were dispatched to the 5100 block of 2.^i.e Street after reports of another stabbing.

Like the previous incident, this stabbing also stemmed from an altercation and ended with a man being stabbed in the upper body, police said. The victim was taken to a hospital and is said to be in critical but stable condition.

About 17 minutes after the stabbing on 2^i.e Street, another incident was reported in the 200 block of Pine Street, this time involving three women.

“The preliminary investigation indicates that two female adult victims were in a physical altercation with a female adult suspect. The altercation escalated when the suspect stabbed each victim in the upper body,” the LBPD said, adding that both women were hospitalized in stable condition. .

The fourth incident happened around 3 a.m. in the 5100 block of 2^i.e Street, the same location as the second stabbing, police said; However, they learned of the incident almost two hours later when the victim transported himself to a hospital.

“The victim was outside in a dispute with a group of female adult suspects,” authorities said. “The matter escalated when a female suspect punched the victim, and a second female suspect stabbed the victim in the upper body.”

This stabbing turned out to be unrelated to the previous stabbing on 2^i.e Street hours earlier, police confirmed.

No suspect descriptions or motives have been released regarding any of the four cases.

Anyone with information about any of the stabbings is urged to contact Long Beach police.