A se­cu­ri­ty guard is in sta­ble con­di­tion, af­ter be­ing stabbed sev­er­al times dur­ing an at­tack at a Crown Point fast food restau­rant on Sun­day morn­ing.

Around mid­night, the 43-year-old guard was on du­ty at Trinidad and To­ba­go Chick­en Hut, lo­cat­ed on Mil­ford Road, ad­ja­cent to the Jade Mon­key Bar, when a man at­tempt­ed to en­ter the es­tab­lish­ment car­ry­ing an al­co­holic bev­er­age.

The guard told the man that he could not bring al­co­hol in­side, which led to an ar­gu­ment be­tween them.

The man left but soon re­turned and ap­proached the guard from be­hind. Dur­ing a strug­gle, the man pulled out a knife and stabbed the guard sev­er­al times about his body. The vic­tim was rushed to the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he re­ceived treat­ment and re­mains sta­ble un­der the care of doc­tors.

The at­tack­er, iden­ti­fied as a 36-year-old man of Opal Dri­ve, Sig­nal Hill, was ar­rest­ed at the scene by of­fi­cers from the Crown Point Po­lice Sta­tion.

The sus­pect was al­so tak­en to the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal for med­ical treat­ment and is al­so ward­ed at the hos­pi­tal.

Po­lice vis­it­ed the hos­pi­tal and con­firmed the vic­tim re­mains in a sta­ble con­di­tion. In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the in­ci­dent are on­go­ing, as the po­lice con­tin­ue to gath­er ev­i­dence and ques­tion wit­ness­es. —Eliz­a­beth Gon­za­les