A woman was rushed to a hospital Tuesday night after she was stabbed, stumbled out of the back of a Lyft and was hit by a passing truck.
The woman was sharing the car with two other female passengers when an argument ensued, according to South Fulton police. She was stabbed multiple times and jumped out to escape.
The victim was found with life-threatening injuries when officers responded about 11 p.m. to the area of Butner Road and Fair Ridge. She is in serious condition at a local hospital, but she is stable, police spokesman Sgt. Jubal Rogers said Wednesday morning.
Both the Lyft driver and the driver who hit the woman stayed to speak with police, Rogers said. The front-seat passenger is also cooperating with the investigation.
The other back-seat passenger left the scene on foot before police arrived, he said. She is considered the stabbing suspect, and detectives are working to verify her identity.
“Detectives are still determining if there is any relationship between the victim and the suspect at this time,” Rogers said.
Tyron Bush, the driver who hit the woman, said it didn’t seem like the people in the car knew each other.
“I don’t know what was going on, but all I know is an innocent young lady ran out in front of my truck, and I ran her down,” he said. “I didn’t mean to hit her. I tried to stop, but I still hit her.”
She was speaking when Bush jumped out of his truck to see if she was OK. She told him she was stabbed seven times, he said.
Bush said he saw multiple stab wounds to her neck, back and chest. He called 911 and waited with the woman until help arrived, directing traffic away as she laid in the road.
The ordeal “messed me up,” Bush said. The victim reminded him of a missing woman whose photo he had seen recently on the news.
“I’m just trying to find out who she is so I can go visit her” in the hospital, he said.
Detectives are waiting for the victim to come out of surgery so they can speak with her, according to Rogers. They are also working with Lyft to determine where the passengers were picked up, and why they were together.
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