A 48-year-old driver who did not give a panhandler money was stabbed multiple times early Monday morning in Rosemead.

Detective Juan Rivera of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Temple station said the driver stopped at San Gabriel Boulevard and Hellman Avenue to use a pay phone. A man asked the driver for money.

When driver said he didn’t have money, the man punched him and stabbed him numerous times, according to Rivera. He said the victim called a friend, who took him to a hospital.

Sgt. James Long said the hospital called Temple station at 3:51 a.m.

The suspect was only described as a man with a shaved head.