A man stabbed Friday afternoon at South Salina and East Fayette streets was identified by police as Larry McCraney, 27, of Syracuse.
McCraney underwent emergency surgery and was reported in critical condition early Saturday morning, police said.
McCraney was stabbed multiple times by three to four men who were all in their 20s, police said. All the suspects were wearing baseball caps.
McCraney was the victim of a stabbing in September, according to The Post-Standard archives. That stabbing took place Sept. 14 during a fight at Highland and Knaul streets.
Police are asking witnesses to the attack to contact police at 442-5222. Police also have heard that the attack may have been captured on video and ask if anyone used a phone to record the attack to contact police.
The earlier report: Syracuse, NY -- Syracuse police are investigating a stabbing at Fayette and South Salina streets this afternoon.
A man was stabbed at 1:03 p.m. on the southeast
corner of Fayette and South Salina streets near the Centro bus stop. The man was stabbed multiple times in front of the Rite Aid store, Sgt. Tom Connellan said. The victim ran across the street and collapsed on the northwest corner.
corner of Fayette and South Salina streets near the Centro bus stop. The man was stabbed multiple times in front of the Rite Aid store, Sgt. Tom Connellan said. The victim ran across the street and collapsed on the northwest corner.
The victim, who has not been identified, had been in an altercation with up to three men in front of the Rite Aid, Connellan said.
"These guys walked up on him or got out of a car and attacked him," Connellan said.
The victim was "extremely serious," Connellan said. "When he left here, he was suffering traumatic cardiac arrest."
The victim immediately entered emergency surgery at Upstate University Hospital, Connellan said.
Police have asked anyone who may have witnessed the stabbing to contact investigators at 442-5222.
Witnesses have told police that there may have been people recording the incident on cell phones, Connellan said. Anyone who may have captured the stabbing on video is asked to contact police, he said.
Angelo Vigliotti, who runs the sausage stand on the corner for Franco's Pizza and Deli, saw the victim.
The stabbing occurred in the middle of the street, where it looked like people were fighting, Vigliotti said.
A customer getting a hot dog at his stand told him someone had been stabbed, he said.
Vigliotti said he saw a man in a white t-shirt running away from the scene heading east on Fayette Street.
He described the victim as a man in his 20s, no older than 25.
"I saw him holding his chest running from the middle of the street. He collapsed on the corner. Got up and then went to his knees and collapsed again," Vigliotti said.
"What a scene. You don't expect something like this to happen here," he said.
Police marked the blood trail across Salina Street and then across Fayette Street with blue evidence markers. A pile of bloody clothes marked where emergency responders worked on the man before he was loaded into an ambulance.
Shortly before 2 p.m., police took a young man dressed in a white shirt, black pants and red sneakers into custody and searched him. He was handcuffed. Connellan said the man was wanted on warrants, but is not considered a suspect at this time.
Police shut down Salina Street from Washington to Jefferson streets. Fayette Street is closed from Clinton Street to Warren Street. At 2:30 p.m., police said the streets would be closed for several more hours, possibly through rush hour.
The intersection is considered the busiest intersection in the city, Connellan said. It also is considered a safe place, he said.
The intersection is the common center for the Centro buses, where north-south and east-west bus lines meet.
"We've had fights down here. We've had incidents, usually involving juveniles," Connellan said.
Those incidents are primarily because it is so busy, a place where people bump into people that they know.
The police department regularly stations officers on the corner because of the numbers of people that pass through.
Today, however, there was a bank robbery at 12:25 p.m. at the HSBC Bank on West Washington Street, just a couple of blocks west of the intersection, Connellan said. The cops usually at Salina and Fayette responded to the bank robbery, he said.
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