UTICA, NY — A man was stabbed multiple times in the head during an altercation on a city bus Wednesday afternoon.
Utica Police and Utica Fire units responded to 15 Elizabeth St. at approximately 4:15 p.m. March 5 for a report of a stabbing.
Police said two men engaged in an altercation while on the bus, resulting in one suffering multiple lacerations to the head.
The victim told police a person he knew attempted to engage him in a verbal argument.
When the victim said he would not fight, the suspect brandished two knives and began stabbing and slashing him in the face before fleeing the bus, according to police.
The victim was transported to Wynn Hospital by Utica Fire Department with non-life threatening injuries.
During a canvas of the area, patrol units located and arrested the suspect, JahMir Coleman-Green, without incident.
Coleman-Green was transported to the Utica Police Department and charged with assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree.
