Two D.C. gay bar customers stabbed on sidewalk near Dupont Circle
D.C. police on Aug. 18 arrested a 35-year-old woman on two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon after two men who had just stepped outside the gay bar Fireplace at the corner of 22nd and P streets, N.W., reported she struck them in the neck with a sharp object.
Police and court records show the incident took place about 7:30 p.m. One of the two men, who was sitting on a bench on the sidewalk at a bus stop in front of the Fireplace who was stabbed by the woman, was taken to a nearby hospital after he was bleeding “profusely” from the neck from the stab wound, according to an arrest affidavit filed in D.C.
Superior Court. However, the affidavit says that person, listed as Victim 2, was recovering from his injury and the other person attacked by the woman, Victim 1, suffered a less serious neck wound that did not require hospitalization.
Larry Ray, a Fireplace customer who knows the two victims, said they had stepped outside the bar to smoke a cigarette minutes before they were attacked.
