Jan 6, 2009 5:20 am US/Central
2 Stabbed In Lincoln Park Bar Brawl
1 Victim Listed In Critical Condition
CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) ―
An alcohol-fueled brawl that started inside a crowded bar spilled outside, leaving two young men hospitalized with stab wounds early Tuesday on bustling Lincoln Avenue in the Lincoln Park neighborhood.
At 12:40 a.m., a group of young men were drinking inside the Irish Eyes tavern, 2519 N. Lincoln Ave., where a small fight began. They left and the fight apparently became physical because police found a few drops of blood outside the bar, according to Belmont District police.
The fracas eventually moved across the street and about four doors north of the bar where two men, possibly originally from the suburbs and between the ages of 18 and 22, were stabbed with a knife at 2546 N. Lincoln Ave. where the bulk of the blood was found, police said.
One injured man was transported to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in critical condition where he remains as of 4:30 a.m. and the second one suffered a stab wound to his arm and was initially taken to St. Joseph Hospital but was later transferred to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, according to police, who said the man initially taken to St. Joseph was not as seriously wounded as the other man.
Police could not say whether the men involved are students or what the fight was about as the men and about 10 witnesses provided many different versions of what triggered the fight.
Police have not ruled out the possibility that the men stabbed each other.
(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2009. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)
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