Two people allegedly beat and stabbed a man in a Center City fast-food restaurant Wednesday night, and police believe that one of the suspects is transgender.
According to the police report, the 21-year-old complainant was sitting inside Wendy’s at 11th and Walnut streets around 8:30 p.m. when the two assailants approached him. A verbal altercation ensued, possibly over the complainant’s cell phone that was on the table, which then escalated into physical violence.
The assault was captured on video and showed the victim and the two assailants struggling in the middle of the restaurant. According to Officer Little, a police spokesperson, the victim was stabbed in the chest and in the right side of his body with a box cutter by the first suspect, who was described as a black male with a dark complexion in his mid-20s, approximately 5-foot-8.
The complainant was also punched twice in the right eye by the second suspect, described as a mid-20s black transgender woman wearing a black wig and purple beret, approximately 6-foot-5.
Officer Little said the wound to the victim’s chest was superficial and his eye was bruised and swollen.
As of Thursday morning, no arrests had been made.
