Two injured in North Stonington roadside stabbing incident

North Stonington — Police are investigating a roadside stabbing on Route 2 they say happened about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Two men in a white Chevrolet pickup truck got in an argument while driving west on Route 2 and pulled off on the eastbound side of the road between the Holly Green shopping center and the Bellisimo Grande hotel.

One of the men stabbed the other with a knife, police said. The victim got out of the vehicle to get away from the other man, and police found both men at the scene. Police said both men were taken to the William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich with injuries that were not life-threatening.

Police released information about the incident late Wednesday night after officers on the scene and witnesses gave conflicting reports Wednesday afternoon.

A decal on the side of the truck identifies it as belonging to Ozzie and Sons Handyman Services and lists a Rhode Island phone number. A man who answered the phone at that number, Salvador Martinez, said his son, who works for the contracting and landscaping company, was in the truck and involved in the altercation. Martinez said the argument was about who was allowed to drive the vehicle.

A woman who said she watched the incident from a window in a nearby medical office building said the white pickup truck was swerving on Route 2 and a person was hanging out of the driver’s side door before the vehicle pulled across the opposite lane of traffic and stopped in the grass on the side of the road.

The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, said she then saw one of the men punching or stabbing someone in the truck. One of the men then ran toward a nearby hotel, and another got in a black pickup that stopped to pick him up and drove eastbound on Route 2, she said.

State police interviewed witnesses in their cars on the side of the road Wednesday afternoon and used a K-9 to search the area around the car. The K-9 found the knife involved in the incident, they said.

They said Wednesday night that they had not arrested anyone in connection with the incident.