PORT HADLOCK — A Port Hadlock man remained in a Seattle hospital Saturday after he was stabbed by a homeowner who said he pursued the man because he caught him trying to break into his home Friday night.
Neither the Port Hadlock homeowner nor the man who was stabbed will be identified until arrests are made, said Sgt. Ben Stamper of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday.
He added that the police expect to have more information early this week.
The man pursued by the home- owner was stabbed at least three times but not more than six times in the hand and shoulder with a pocket knife that had probably a three-inch blade, Stamper said.
“We don’t feel that his injuries are going to be life-threatening or severe,” Stamper said.
He was listed in stable condition Friday, the Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
The Sheriff’s Office gave this account:
After receiving a report of a man screaming for help at Fifth Avenue and East Price Street in Port Hadlock at 10:39 p.m., deputies found two men in a field, one of whom had been stabbed several times.
The homeowner, who is 29, told deputies he had returned home to find a 19-year-old man at the back of his house attempting to break in.
He chased the man a short distance and tried to subdue him until law enforcement could be summoned, the sheriff’s office said.
He was overpowered and “responded by stabbing the suspect several times,” the sheriff’s office said.
As of Saturday, deputies had not interviewed the man who was stabbed, Stamper said.
“We don’t have an indication that they knew each other,” he said.
The case remains under investigation.
