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JACOB H. FRIESA man and a woman are taken to hospitals after both were assaulted in two unrelated incidents over the weekend.
CLEARWATER - A woman was stabbed and a man shot in two unrelated attacks near downtown over the weekend, police said Monday.
No one has been arrested in either case.
At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Clearwater police Officer David Nugent saw a woman walking in the 1500 block of N Fort Harrison Avenue, hunched over and bleeding from the left side of her chest, police spokesman Wayne Shelor said.
Stephanie Blanton, 38, told Nugent she had been in an argument with another person near the corner of Grant Street and N Myrtle Avenue when she was stabbed, Shelor said. He did not provide the names of any suspects.
Blanton, who could not be reached for comment Monday, was taken to a hospital with injuries that weren't life threatening, Shelor said.
Officers later went to the intersection, but did not find any evidence of the stabbing, Shelor said.
The shooting occurred about a mile and a half away at 6:05 a.m. Sunday.
Police were dispatched to the Economy Inn at 1274 Cleveland St. where they found Rodney Sullivan, 37, bleeding from gunshot wounds, Shelor said.
His attacker, however, was gone, although Shelor indicated investigators have a good idea who he is.
Sullivan was taken to a hospital and expected to recover, Shelor said. Efforts to reach him Monday were unsuccessful.
The weekend's incidents follow two unsolved slayings in Clearwater earlier this month.
On Nov. 2, James Michael Siebert, 53, was beaten on the head and forearms with a blunt instrument in the parking lot of his apartment complex in the 600 block of Sally Lane as he was leaving for work. Siebert, who was not robbed, died at Morton Plant Hospital later that day.
Then on Nov. 3, Anthony Haines, 58, was found dead in his Bay Breeze Mobile Home Park after suffering at least one stab wound.
Police have made no arrests in either slaying.