3:12What began as a heated argument ended with a man stabbing the mother of his child and fleeing the scene with the toddler in tow, prompting a frantic citywide search that ended with his arrest Tuesday morning, Minneapolis police say.
Police said the victim was taken to the hospital with a stab wound to her leg. She is expected to survive.
Police later arrested 26-year-old Hershel Theo Hulbert, who allegedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend during a domestic situation on the 2000 block of 3rd Avenue S. near Franklin Avenue about 5:50 a.m.
According to officials, officers were called about 5:46 a.m. Tuesday to an apartment building in the 2000 block of 3rd Avenue S. on reports of a loud argument — over what is unclear — that started inside the apartment and later spilled onto the street.
Witnesses told police that Hulbert stabbed the woman in the leg, before taking the pair's 2½-year old son and fleeing the scene in a silver 1999 Dodge Durango. The two had previously been in a relationship that ended, police said.
A police spokeswoman said that the victim was found at the scene, bleeding from a wound to her leg, and the father and son gone.
The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension later issued an Amber Alert asking for the public's help in locating the missing toddler, beaming the vehicle's make and model to thousands of cellphones across the metro. The alert was also broadcast on the radio and on billboards.
The manhunt ended three hours later when investigators tracked Hulbert to a relative's home, about one-and-a-half miles south of the apartment, according to police. The pair's son was also found safe at the house.
