Two people were in stable condition Wednesday after a 54-year-old woman allegedly stabbed them back-to-back in downtown Long Beach, police said.

The suspect allegedly stabbed a man inside the Vons grocery store in the 600 block of East Broadway about 8:40 p.m. Tuesday and fled on foot, police said. Three minutes later, multiple people called 911 to report a second man had been stabbed across the street in the 100 block of Atlantic Avenue.

“Officers were dispatched to both locations and learned that two separate stabbings had occurred, and the suspect description was the same in both incidents,” Karen Owens, a Police Department administrator, said in an email.

Police found Lilly May Stepanian nearby a short time later and took her into custody, Owens said, while both victims were taken to local hospitals.

“The knife believed to be used in the crime was also recovered,” Owens said.

Stepanian, a Tujunga resident, was being held on $2 million bail on suspicion of two counts of attempted murder, police said.

Detectives were working to determine a motive.