Two men are facing charges after a man stabbed another man who stole from him at a Pembroke Pines shopping plaza Tuesday in an incident that was caught on camera, police said.
The stabbing happened around 9 a.m. along Pines Boulevard, in the area of Northwest 76th Avenue and Northwest 77th Way, according to Pembroke Pines Police. The scene is across from North Perry Airport.
Surveillance cameras captured the moment a man in a black hoodie, with an apparent knife in hand, chased another man in an orange vest down the plaza.
A worker at a neighborhood food store told NBC6 that minutes prior, that armed man had bought a knife from her at the store.
Shortly after, police said a man was stabbed.
Then, images show the man in the black hoodie on top of the other, leaning against him on the street.
As for the alleged weapon, it was not clear if authorities have recovered the knife, and if it did in fact come from the food store.
According to Pembroke Pines Police, the two men were in a coin laundry business when one stole items belonging to the other and ran outside.
The theft victim chased the man and stabbed him in the back with a knife, police said.
Police later said both men were arrested. CLF, 37, is facing theft charges, while 26-year-old KJ is facing charges related to the stabbing, police said.
An employee of a transmission shop next door, who only wanted to be identified as R, said he watched the men argue before one stabbed the other.
“The only thing I had seen was the knife in the back. He was lying on the road face down. They were working on him, they bandaged him up with the knife still in him, and then they took him,” he said. “It’s always something. Accidents. Never heard of a stabbing, no, but accidents all the time. It’s crazy. It’s getting worse every day.”
Two lanes of westbound Pines Boulevard were closed for more than an hour as police investigated.
GG, the owner of nearby restaurant Totoritas, has seen the men before. Both, he says, have trespassed onto his business.
He’s hoping awareness about the crime will put an end to what he calls a recent spike in incidents in the area.
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