{"id":23721,"date":"2016-07-19T15:02:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T22:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/two-men-stab-each-other-on-kents-west-hill\/"},"modified":"2016-07-19T15:02:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T22:02:09","slug":"two-men-stab-each-other-on-kents-west-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/two-men-stab-each-other-on-kents-west-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men stab each other on Kent\u2019s West Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two men stabbed and injured each other during a dispute at about 10:55 a.m. Tuesday on the West Hill near the intersection of Kent Des Moines Road and Pacific Highway South<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Preliminary reports indicate that a Hispanic man approached a black man at the bus stop near the intersection, according to a Kent Police media release. The Hispanic man stabbed the black man with an unknown object and ran.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The black man then chased the Hispanic man around the businesses in the area and into the roadway and oncoming traffic. He caught up to the man and a physical altercation ensued, at which time the black man stabbed the Hispanic man.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Both men suffered injuries and paramedics transported them to the hospital. No updates were available about the conditions of the two men, police said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Police are trying to determine the relationship between the two men and the reasons for the dispute. Police are interviewing witnesses and following up on other leads.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two men stabbed each other during a dispute at about 10:55 a.m. Tuesday on the West Hill near the intersection of Kent Des Moines Road and Pacific Highway South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-23721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23721"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}