Man rushed to hospital after violent stabbing on busy Chapel St in Prahran
A man of no fixed address has been arrested after a man was stabbed in broad daylight on busy Chapel St.
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A man accused of stabbing another man outside a Chapel St tobacconist has been arrested and charged by police.
The alleged victim was knifed in broad daylight outside Prahran’s In & Out Tobacconist, next to Taco Bell, near the intersection of Chapel St and Malvern Rd just before 8am on Wednesday.
The victim, a 37-year-old South Yarra man, was taken to The Alfred hospital in a serious condition with non-life-threatening injuries to his lower body.
The alleged offender ran from the scene.
Police patrolling the South Yarra area arrested a 24-year-old man of no fixed address at a Surrey Rd apartment building about 9am on Thursday.
He has since been charged with intentionally causing injury, possess controlled weapon, resist arrest, wilful damage of police property and possessing a traffickable quantity of meth.
He is due to face court on Thursday afternoon.
Witness Debbie said there was “blood everywhere” outside the smoke and vape shop on Wednesday.
“Well there’s about 12 police there, there’s no person, so I’d imagine they’ve been taken to hospital but there’s blood everywhere,” she told 3AW.
Chapel St in Prahran and South Yarra has seen several other violent incidents in recent months.
A man was filmed torching a cafe nearby before he too was engulfed in flames.
That blaze, which is still under investigation, damaged several nearby stores, including another tobacconist, closing the area for a number of days.
The firebombing of the Lux nightclub also shut part of the Chapel St precinct for weeks in November.
That blaze was believed to have been the result of friction surrounding the illicit tobacco sector.
Police last month arrested a man accused of dealing drugs outside a number of pubs and clubs along the busy shopping strip.
He was accused of dealing the goods in broad daylight for some time before his apartment was raided by detectives.
A man was also stabbed inside popular Chapel St nightclub Revolver in September last year.
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