An argument between the driver of a car and a passenger ended in a stabbing in North Long Beach Wednesday evening, police said.

The two started arguing while they were near Paramount Boulevard and South Street where the passenger stabbed the driver, according to authorities.

The driver then drove about a mile north to his home in the 3000 block of Coolidge Street where the attacker got out and fled on foot, Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman Jennifer De Prez said.

Police responded and found the driver sitting on the curb with cuts to his upper body around 10:35 p.m., De Prez said. Medics took him to the hospital in stable condition. The wounds didn’t appear to be life-threatening, De Prez said.

The victim and the suspect know each other, according to police, who are still looking for the attacker. It wasn’t immediately clear what they were arguing about.

Jeremiah Dobruck is executive editor of the Long Beach Post where he oversees all day-to-day newsroom operations. In his time working as a journalist in Long Beach, he’s won numerous awards for his investigative reporting and editing. Before coming to the Post in 2018, he wrote for publications including the Press-Telegram, Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times. Reach him at [email protected] or @jeremiahdobruck on Twitter.