Stabbing victim in stable condition after Saturday night mugging attack

A 53-year-old man was taken to a hospital in stable condition after being stabbed four times in San Francisco’s Bayview Heights neighborhood late Saturday night, according to police.

The stabbing was reported at 10:29 p.m. on Exeter Street, where a suspect approached the victim and struggled over his backpack, then stabbed him three times in the chest and once in the head, police said.

The suspect then fled in a vehicle described as a red Audi SUV, and the victim was taken to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

No other details about the suspect or the stabbing were immediately available. Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the San Francisco police tip line at (415) 575-4444 or to send a tip by text message to TIP411 with “SFPD” at the start of the message.