Overnight stabbing leaves one hospitalized in Bloomington

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Anyone with information is asked to contact BPD. (Photo courtesy: WJBC/File)

By Heart of Illinois ABC

BLOOMINGTON – Bloomington Police confirm one man is in the hospital with a stab wound.

Police say they were called to the 400 block of McLean Street just after 10 Monday Night on the initial report of a shooting.

It was there they found the man with a stab wound.

He was taken to the hospital with what are being described as non-life threatening injuries.

No one is in custody at this time.

Anyone with information is asked to call Bloomington Police at 309-820-8888 or Crimestoppers at 309-828-1111.

Heart of Illinois ABC can be reached at [email protected]

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