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Posted: Sep 3, 2013 6:53 PM ET
Last Updated: Sep 4, 2013 11:16 AM ET
A baby girl and her mother who were stabbed in Hamilton Tuesday afternoon are both in stable condition in hospital Wednesday morning, police say.
The 18-year-old mother and her child were among four people taken to hospital after a bizarre assault that has shocked a central Hamilton neighbourhood.
The girl is between 18 months and two years old, according to EMS Commander James Summers. She was taken to McMaster Children's Hospital with knife wounds to her shoulders, body and head, he said.
The mother was also taken to hospital with stab wounds, Hamilton EMS says.
Police were alerted to the stabbing after a van crashed into a truck on Eastbourne Avenue, between Cumberland Avenue and Delaware Avenue around 4 p.m. Tuesday.
Neighbour Jeanne Dacey told CBC Hamilton she heard a noise outside her home like children screaming, and went outside to investigate. She saw the mother and her daughter bleeding on the side of the street. She rushed back to her house and asked her husband Steve to grab towels and their first aid kit.
"The kid was screaming. She was in obvious pain," Dacey said. "She had a fairly big gash on her leg. She had a cut on her neck and her ear was pretty badly severed."
"It was extremely chaotic. She (the mother) was fairly hysterical. It was her baby."
A third man had collapsed on a lawn nearby, also covered in blood. Dacey says she saw a "fold out knife" that was about eight-inches long including the handle on the ground nearby.
Dacey says the woman — who identified herself as Devona — told her she and her baby — who is named Destiny — had left their home on Holton Avenue South around the corner where the initial attack occurred.
After fleeing the home, they got into a van with a man they didn't know who was trying to get them to safety, she says. Somehow, their alleged attacker also made it into the van, and it crashed on nearby Eastbourne Avenue.
A 39-year-old male with stab wounds to the arms, head and throat was taken to Hamilton General. One of the two men found "suffering trauma at the scene" has been arrested, Det. Sgt. Joe Stewart said, adding that no charges have been laid yet.
A fourth victim, the man driving the van, was taken to St. Joseph's with stab wounds to the arm.
"It's scary and shocking," said another neighbour Carla Piccolo. She has lived on Eastbourne Avenue for almost 20 years. "Everybody had the same reaction — that it was shocking. You hear about it around, but you never think it's going to happen on your street."
All injuries are serious, but non-life threatening, Summers said.
Staff Sgt. Greg Doerr said Hamilton Police continue to investigate.
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