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On-duty parking enforcement officer stabbed near Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

The 25-year-old employee of the Philadelphia Parking Authority was listed in stable condition.

File photo of the glass pavilion over the Fifth Street entrance to the Philadelphia Parking Authority underground parking lot on Independence Mall.
File photo of the glass pavilion over the Fifth Street entrance to the Philadelphia Parking Authority underground parking lot on Independence Mall.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer

An on-duty parking-enforcement officer was hospitalized in stable condition after being stabbed Monday evening near Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Center City, police said.

The 25-year-old employee of the Philadelphia Parking Authority was stabbed four times in the chest and lower torso around 7:30 p.m. in the area of 10th and Locust Streets, police said. He was able to walk to Jefferson’s emergency room.

Police had a suspect in custody and a weapon was recovered as evidence.