A teenager is recovering in the hospital after being stabbed on Friday afternoon, according to a spokesperson with the Philadelphia Police Department.
Officers were called to the 2600 block of Kensington Avenue in the Kensington section of Philadelphia just before 3 p.m. on Oct. 18 for reports of a person with a weapon, police said.
When the officers got to the scene, they found a 16-year-old boy with a stab wound to the right side of his back, according to police. Officers took him to a nearby children's hospital where he was listed in stable condition.
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No one has been arrested yet and no weapons were recovered, officials said.
The person that police said they believe is responsible for this stabbing is a thin man who was wearing a black hoodie with a white design.
The suspect was last seen heading westbound on Cumberland Street, police said.
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