Police have arrested a homeless man accused of stabbing another man in the chest and neck at a soup kitchen in New Haven and leaving him in critical condition.
Police said Quan McCloud, 33, got into an argument with the 38-year-old victim in the lunch room of the Community Soup Kitchen at 84 Broadway in New Haven shortly after noon Thursday.
The argument escalated to a fist fight, at McCloud stabbed the other man with a knife, according to police.
Medical personnel rushed the victim to Yale-New Haven Hospital, where he went into emergency surgery and is listed in critical condition.
Police tracked down McCloud near the Yale University Police Department headquarters on Ashmun Street and took him into custody. He was arrested and charged with first-degree assault.
