As a mother and her 1-year-old baby girl fought for their lives Sunday after police say they were stabbed overnight during a domestic dispute, a neighbor who came to their aid described the horrific scene she found inside the West Oak Lane house where the violence erupted.
"I heard her screaming, screaming, so it woke me up out of my sleep to the point that I fell off the bed. I went over there and I knocked on the door, and I see him through the window standing over her, slicing her up," the next-door neighbor said.
"I ran in the house to get my phone. As I was running out [of] the house with my phone, he ran in his car, speed off. I knocked on the door, asked her, 'Is everything OK?' She told me no, and I asked her did she need me to call the cops," the woman recounted. "She said yes, she let me in, and when she let me in, she was leaning against the wall with her arm sliced up, and all I could do was find some paper towels to stop the bleeding."
The neighbor said she was the one who called police to the house, on Dallas Street at the corner of Georgian Road, about 12:30 a.m. She told NBC10's Jesse Gary that prior to the stabbing, she had heard the couple fighting, and that the fighting escalated so badly that she ran next door to see if everything was OK. That's when she says she saw a man jump into a burgundy Nissan Altima outside the house and take off.
The 37-year-old mother and her baby were rushed to Albert Einstein Medical Center. The baby was later transferred to St. Christopher's Hospital for Children. Both remain in critical condition. Their identities have not yet been confirmed.
Other neighbors described the block as quiet and said the couple had moved in recently. They said they were shocked at what happened.
Authorities have not reported any arrests or officially identified a suspect, but said police are looking for a "known male" who is 41 years old in connection with the stabbing.
Stay with NBC10 for updates on this developing story.
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