Man arrested after slashing in Center City hotel
A 24-year-old man was arrested and charged with attempted murder and related offenses Saturday after he allegedly slashed another man with a razor inside the Embassy Suites hotel in Center City, police said.
A 24-year-old man was arrested and charged with attempted murder and related offenses Saturday after he allegedly slashed another man with a razor inside the Embassy Suites hotel in Center City, police said.
Tyress Salmon, of Bronx, N.Y., is accused of stabbing and injuring another 24-year-old man inside a room of the hotel on the 1700 block of Benjamin Franklin Parkway, at about 1 a.m.
The victim told officers who went to the hotel that he had gotten into an argument with Salmon about one of them "not getting ready fast enough to go out to a club," a police report said. The report doesn't say who wasn't yet ready to go out.
The victim told police that he and Salmon then began fighting, and that Salmon slashed him across the neck with a razor, police said.
Medics transported the victim to Hahnemann University Hospital in stable condition.
Police said that Salmon was taken into custody at the hotel. There were several witnesses to the incident, but they had fled before officers arrived to the hotel, police said.
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