Cleveland officers discover man disemboweled in Ohio City

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Cleveland police said a 32-year-old man is hospitalized following a Friday morning incident in which he was disemboweled.

According to police, the incident took place ahead of 2:40 a.m. in the area of West 29th Street and Clinton Avenue in Ohio City.

Officers found a man there laying on the ground with stab wounds that left his intestines/organs outside of his body, according to a police report.

Multiple officers responded to the blood-covered scene to help the 32-year-old before EMS arrived.

According to the report, first responders took the victim, who has not been identified, to MetroHealth with life-threatening injuries.

Neighbors in the area told a 19 News crew they hope that police catch the suspect.

“I haven’t heard anything like that in a while and I think stories like that happen pretty regularly now so it’s kind of sad to see,” said one man, who did not want to be identified on camera.

Officers said they took the victim’s fingerprints in order to make a positive identification.

DNA evidence potentially belonging to the suspect was collected on scene, the report said.

Anyone with information is asked to call police.

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