Crime

4 people stabbed on Marshall Street Sunday morning

By Justin Mattingly

UPDATED: Sept. 7 at 10:56 p.m.

Four people not affiliated with Syracuse University were stabbed on Marshall Street early Sunday morning.

A large fight outside Acropolis Pizza House, located at 167 Marshall St., was broken up around 2:35 a.m. Sunday, but after the crowd was dispersed, four people ended up in the hospital with stab wounds.

Officers from the SU Department of Public Safety, Syracuse Police Department and SUNY Upstate Police Department saw the fight outside the pizzeria and moved in to break it up, according to an SPD release. When they did, the fight ended and people left Marshall Street and University Avenue, according to the release.

Officers soon found a 29-year-old male lying on Marshall Street suffering from a stab wound to his abdomen. He was rushed to Upstate University Hospital and was the only victim found on Marshall Street.



Two more male victims, 28 and 29 years old, were brought to Upstate in private vehicles with stab wounds to the abdomen while officers investigated, according to the release. A fourth victim, a 25-year-old male, was brought to Upstate Community Hospital suffering from a stab wound to his shoulder.

All four victims are expected to survive, according to SPD.

There is no suspect in the case and none of the victims would cooperate in the investigation, according to SPD.

This is not the first time a stabbing has occurred around Acropolis.

In September 2012, a 31-year-old Syracuse man not affiliated with SU was stabbed around 2 a.m. after a fight in the Acropolis doorway. No students were hurt in that stabbing.

Following the 2012 stabbing, then-SPD Sgt. Tom Connellan said in an email to The Daily Orange that Acropolis had “been a focal point for late night problems over the last several months.”

In response to the stabbing, DPS and the SU Student Association sent out an email to the student body suggesting students not go to Acropolis late at night.

The city of Syracuse threatened to shut down Acropolis the last time the restaurant had problems, including arrests that involved marijuana possession, the sale of an alcoholic beverage to a minor and a weapons charge. Those arrests came about two months after the stabbing.

Lt. Eric Carr, a spokesman for the Syracuse Police Department, did not return an email requesting comment about whether the city would consider shutting down the restaurant.

 





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