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A man is in custody after 21-year-old man was stabbed in a home on Albert Street Tuesday morning.

Police said it happened just east of the intersection with Booth Street at about 8:20 a.m.

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Michael Karlin, 36, lives in the area and was walking to work when he saw a barefoot man, wearing only underwear, running down the street screaming for help.

Karlin described the man, who was clutching his left shoulder, as being in his late teens or early 20s, in good physical shape, about six feet tall, of east-Asian descent.

The man asked Karlin to call for help as he ran by, and Karlin called for an ambulance on his cellphone. The man continued to scream for help while clutching his shoulder and ran to the intersection of Booth and Albert streets, where he collapsed into the snow.

A woman standing near the corner called the police.

Karlin and the woman were tending to the man when an OC Transpo bus No. 85 pulled up and saw the scene.

The driver of the bus asked everyone to get off the vehicle, and encouraged the witnesses to help the injured man onto the bus so he could stay warm while they awaited an ambulance.

Karlin said an ambulance arrived quickly. He also said the gash on the man’s left arm appeared to be deep, around one-inch in length and appeared to be severe.

Paramedics said the man, who suffered a serious injury to his arm, was in stable condition when he got to the hospital.

Police reopened the scene shortly before 1 p.m.

Photo by Jean Levac / Postmedia News

Photo by Jean Levac / Postmedia News