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September 19, 2007

Providence teen chased off bus, stabbed

PROVIDENCE -- Stanton Towns, 17, a Mount Pleasant High School student, was stabbed in the stomach this morning after he argued with another young man over a seat on a bus, the police said.

Towns, of 29 Salmon St., Olneyville, told the police that he boarded a bus at Manton Avenue and Salmon and that the argument broke out once he was aboard, at about 7:45 a.m. In order to avoid further trouble, Towns said he got off the bus near Broadway and Valley Street. But the other man got off the bus too.

The suspect chased Towns down Valley Street where Towns slipped and fell and was then stabbed. His assailant ran to the rear of the church at 33 Valley St. and escaped.

The victim was treated at Rhode Island Hospital.

-- Journal staff writer Gregory Smith

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