A man targeted for robbery while using an outdoor ATM after dark in Minneapolis was stabbed and seriously wounded while fighting the perpetrator, according to police.
The attack on the 59-year-old Minneapolis man occurred on Dec. 27 shortly after 10:30 p.m. at the Huntington Bank in the 3100 block of E. Lake Street, a police report released Wednesday said.
Police have collected video surveillance from the bank as they continue the pursuit of an arrest.
The victim suffered “a large puncture wound on the right side of [his] torso,” police said in a search warrant affidavit filed in Hennepin County District Court, clearing the way for police to review the video from that night.
According to the affidavit and the police report:
While standing at the bank’s ATM withdrawing money, the man noticed a male he didn’t know standing nearby.
Once the cash was withdrawn, the perpetrator “rushed him and threatened him, demanding money.”
The man refused to give up the cash, fought with the attacker and was stabbed with what the victim described as a sharpened screwdriver. Police have not said whether the assailant got away with any money.
