A man was slashed in the neck with a knife after he asked for a cigarette at a bus stop in a popular North Carolina tourist town, according to police.
Officers in Asheville responded to a bus stop near downtown at around 5:30 a.m. Tuesday and found a man with a cut on his neck, according to a post on the Asheville Police Department’s Facebook page.
The man’s injuries were not considered life-threatening, and he refused treatment, according to the post.
The man told officers that he had gotten into a fight with another man after asking him for a cigarette, according to police.
“The suspect pulled out a knife, started swinging, slashed the victim in the throat, and then left the scene prior to the officers’ arrival,” the post says.
Police are still searching for the man with a knife.
Asheville is in the Blue Ridge Mountains in western North Carolina, about 125 miles northwest of Charlotte. About 10 million people visit the area each year, WLOS reported. Tourists spent $2.6 billion in 2021, according to Explore Asheville.
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