Too Close for Comfort....
Went in to the office today to get tutored in a topic I've been struggling with. While I was there, I learned from my colleagues that there was a stabbing on Saturday at the 7/11 in our building. No joke.
On Saturday afternoon, Steven Kratzsch, 24, a clerk in a 7-Eleven store on John F. Kennedy Boulevard near 18th Street, approached a man who was looking at photos of scantily-clad women in a magazine and asked him to leave. Instead, the man flew into a rage, police said, and began stabbing Kratzsch repeatedly. Detective James Seymour said the store was filled with customers, including children. The attacker ran out, leaving his victim bleeding on the floor, and fled north on 18th Street. Kratzsch was rushed to Hahnemann University Hospital, where he was in critical but stable condition with a collapsed lung and other internal injuries. Investigators confiscated the King magazine the man had been reading and lifted fingerprints from it. The attacker is described as a dark-complected African-American, about 5-foot-7 and weighing 150 to 160 pounds. He was unshaven, with a slight moustache, and was wearing a camouflage jacket with a brown fur collar, dark blue jeans, and a black wool cap. The man has been seen in the LOVE Park neighborhood, and is believed to be armed and dangerous, police said.
I find this pretty scary, AND, the description of the assailant sounds like this homeless guy that I have seen countless times hanging out on the steps in front of our building by the busstop.
