Police seek 2 teenage boys after Pen Centre stabbing

Police are searching for two teenage boys wanted in connection with a stabbing Saturday at the Pen Centre in St. Catharines.

Officers responded shortly after 5:30 p.m. to the mall, where they found a 20-year-old man suffering from a stab wound.

Paramedics transported him to a local hospital with a minor non-life-threatening injury.

Investigators believe two teenage boys confronted the man near the food court in the mall before he was stabbed. The suspects then ran out of the mall, got rid of the knife and fled in an unknown vehicle.

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The suspect who stabbed the victim is believed to be a white boy under the age of 18. He was last seen wearing a black jacket with a yellow cross-body style bag over his right shoulder and under his left arm, a blue or black baseball hat with the circular sticker still affixed to the brim and a white, grey or black graffiti-patterned hooded sweater. The boy was also carrying a large paper bag.

The second white boy is also believed to be under the age of 18. He was last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with a red and white Toronto Raptors logo on the front, grey pants and was carrying a purple graffiti-styled skateboard.

Police say the suspects may have been involved in a theft with other youths in the mall prior to this incident.

Anyone with information about these incidents is asked to contact investigators at 905-688-4111, option 3, ext. 1009511.

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