Man, 20, stabbed by hooded attacker outside Dudley Chiquito restaurant
A 20-year-old man was stabbed in the arm with a large axe or knife by a hooded attacker as he left a Dudley restaurant.
It happened outside the Chiquito Tex-Mex restaurant in Castle Gate at 10pm on Saturday.
A West Midlands Police spokesman said today: "Police are investigating a serious assault after a 20-year-old was stabbed in the arm outside the Chiquito restaurant in Castle Gate, Dudley last night.
"Officers were called to the scene just after 10pm to a report of a hooded man attacking a man with what is described as a large axe or knife as he left the restaurant.
"The man was taken to hospital with an arm wound, where he remains today.
"Enquiries remain on-going and anyone with information is asked to call police on 101, quoting crime reference 20DY/33149F/18."
Alternatively, contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111 or at crimestoppers-uk.org
The Dudley stabbing comes just two days after 11-year-old Jasmine Forrester was found with serious stab wounds at a home in Kent Road, Wolverhampton. She died later that day - and a 51-year-old male relative was arrested for murder.
A man was also seriously injured in a stabbing at a Bushbury, Wolverhampton barbers in a ‘targeted attack’, on Thursday last week, the day before Jasmine's eath.
The attack outside Chiquito in Dudley last night is the seventh to happen in just over a fortnight.
A 17-year-old boy was attacked in an alleyway on Jameson Street, in Whitmore Reans, at around 2.10am on February 3. A man in his 20s was knifed four times in Lime Street Park in Pennfields, while two schoolboys were stabbed in Owen Road and Ashland Street on January 26.
And on January 20 eight-year-old Mylee Billingham was killed in a stabbing in Brownhills, Walsall. Her father, William Billingham, was last night charged with murder.
