Police say they’re investigating a stabbing near Ocean Boulevard and Shoreline Drive that left one man hospitalized Thursday afternoon.
Officers responded just after 5 p.m. to the area of Seaside and Atlantic ways near International Tower for an assault with a deadly weapon, authorities said.
According to the Long Beach Police Department, a woman was involved in an altercation with an unknown man when her boyfriend tried to intervene and was stabbed by the man.
The suspect fled eastbound toward the beach and has yet to be arrested, police said.
The man who was stabbed was taken by Long Beach Fire Department personnel to a local hospital for treatment, and he is expected to survive, authorities said.