Binghamton: multiple chaotic incidents
Local outlets reported a string of chaotic incidents on Binghamton’s West Side over the weekend, including a stabbing, a pedestrian struck by a car, and a bus crashing into a pole. ( )
Binghamton police spent Friday night, April 10, investigating a cluster of emergencies on Main Street after a stabbing and a pedestrian crash shut down part of the West Side. (wnbf.com) Officers were sent to the West Side Citgo at 96 Main Street shortly after 8 p.m., according to WNBF reporter Bob Joseph, who said crime scene tape sealed off the area near Mather Street. Police had not released details on the victims or any arrests as of Saturday. (wnbf.com) A neighbor told WNBF that several men had gathered beside the store when a fight broke out and one man stabbed another. During the same response, a woman was also struck by a vehicle in what the station described as an apparently separate incident. (wnbf.com) The street closure then created a third crash scene. A blue bus used to transport Binghamton University students struck a utility pole while turning around because Main Street was blocked, WNBF reported. (wnbf.com) That bus appears to have been part of Off Campus College Transport, the student-run transit system known as OCCT, which Binghamton University says carries students, faculty and staff around campus and the surrounding community with a university identification card. (binghamton.edu) The incidents unfolded on a heavily used stretch of West Main Street near homes, small businesses and bus routes. Binghamton police closed part of Main Street to process what WNBF described as multiple scenes. (wnbf.com) The Binghamton Police Department is the city’s primary local law-enforcement agency, with 68 officers and 15 supervisors in its patrol division, according to the city website. By Saturday, the department still had not publicly released more information about the stabbing or the pedestrian who was hit. (binghamton-ny.gov, wnbf.com) By the end of the night, one West Side block had become three separate investigation points: a stabbing scene, a pedestrian crash site and a bus wrapped around a pole. Police had reopened no public narrative beyond confirming the Main Street response. (wnbf.com)
