Shreveport Police Dept.

Date: Dec 26, 2007

Phone: 318/673-6932 Fax: 318/673-6933

Contact: Randy Patrick, Night-Side P.I.O.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Two men stabbed on Christmas morning

Two men were sent to the hospital Christmas morning after an argument escalated to violence.

Shortly after 4:30 Am on Christmas morning, Tim Dalton (DOB-n/a) and Chris Richard (DOB-n/a) got into a verbal altercation with the 3 white suspects on Commerce Street underneath the Texas Street Bridge.

During the course of this altercation a fight broke out, and during the fight two or more of the suspects pulled knifes stabbing the victims numerous times in the stomach, chest, and arm areas of the body.

The suspects fled on foot in an undetermined direction. Victims were transported to LSUMC by the Shreveport Fire Department.

Both Dalton and Richard were both from Zachery Louisiana.

Information can be left with crimestoppers at 673-7373 or by logging onto the crimestoppers website at www.crimestoppersshreveportcaddo.com.

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