Police are looking for a man who stabbed another man at the Ruby Junction MAX station in Gresham tonight.



Joshua Edman, 23, told Gresham police investigators that he was staring at a man on the light rail platform at Southeast 197th Avenue and Burnside Street, when the man walked over to him and asked if he wanted to "go," meaning to fight, according to Gresham police spokesman Adam Baker.



The victim agreed to fight, and both men pulled out knives.



During the fight, the suspect stabbed the victim at least one time in the abdomen, then took the victim's knife away from him and threw it in the bushes before running westbound from the scene. No witnesses were present at the time of the stabbing, Baker said.



Edman was taken to Oregon Health Sciences University.



Violence at MAX stations in Gresham have become an issue in recent years, but incidents have lessened in recent months in the wake of a beefed up transit police presence.



Police described the suspect as a black man in his mid-20's, five feet- seven to five feet-nine inches tall, medium build, and last seen wearing black shorts, a white tank top and a white bandanna. It is unknown he was injured in the incident.



--James Mayer

