A man in the hospital told police he’d been stabbed while he was walking near Martin Luther King Jr. Park early Thursday morning, police said.

The attack happened some time shortly before 12:50 a.m., which is when police headed to the hospital to talk with the man who had wounds to his lower torso that didn’t appear to be life-threatening, LBPD Sgt. Alvino Herrera said.

When officers questioned the man, they found out the attack happened in the 1900 block of Lemon Avenue. That’s where he was approached by someone he didn’t know who attacked him, according to police.

“Assisting officers drove to the area where the incident occurred and could not locate a crime scene,” Herrera said. “They also did not locate the suspect.”

Police are still investigating.

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.