Man Stabbed in Front of the Apple Pan

A man is in stable condition after being stabbed in front of the Apple Pan restaurant on Pico Boulevard on Saturday afternoon. The victim's name was not released.

The stabbing occurred after two men got into an argument while waiting for a bus on Pico and Glendon Avenue at 2:50 p.m., said Sgt. K. McCarthy of the Los Angeles Police Department. The men got on the bus and continued arguing until someone on the bus told them to take their argument outside.

They got off the bus and one of the men stabbed the other at the front entrance of the Apple Pan, McCarthy said. The man who was stabbed went into the restaurant looking for help. The suspect then ran northbound on Glendon and fled the area.

Blood could be seen on the sidewalk outside of the Apple Pan along with the victim's belongings, which included a baseball cap, backpack and clothes.

The victim was transported to a local emergency room while police blocked off Westwood Boulevard and Glendon from Pico to Tennessee. A police helicopter flew over the scene for about an hour. At about 4 p.m. police started searching the backyards on Glendon Avenue with a canine unit. McCarthy said police believed that the suspect had fled the area and the canine unit was searching for a weapon.

By 4:45, police were done searching the area and Westwood Boulevard and Glendon were opened up to traffic. 

The suspect, a black male wearing a blue shirt and black pants, was still at large as of 4:45 p.m.

Sunny Sherman, owner of the Apple Pan, said that her employees called her to tell her about the incident. The restaurant was closed after the stabbing and Sherman wasn’t sure Saturday afternoon when the police would allow her to reopen.

“I’ve lived here for 26 years and nothing like this has ever happened,” she said.