Stabbing at Salisbury North
Where: Waterloo Corner Road, Salisbury North, the street the release names · See the street on the map
The release
Police are investigating a stabbing at Salisbury North last night.
About 11.45pm on Sunday 11 October, police and SA Ambulance were called to reports of a stabbing at Waterloo Corner Road.
A 27-year-old woman from Morphett Vale sustained multiple stab wounds and was treated at the scene by Paramedics and conveyed to hospital in a stable condition.
An 18-year-old woman from Noarlunga Downs presented to the Salisbury Police Station a short time later and was arrested.
Investigations are in their early stages and Police do not believe that this was a random incident, and the women are both known to each other.
Anyone with information or who witnessed this incident and has not spoken to police is asked to contact Crime Stoppers at www.crimestopperssa.com.au or on 1800 333 000 – you can remain anonymous.
— SA PoliceCrime in the Salisbury council area
Salisbury is a council area in South Australia with about 151,019 residents. It has a Crime Score 61 out of 100 (high), 120th of 362 councils nationally.
The score blends national percentile ranks for each published offence category with fixed severity weights; here it is driven most by assault (72nd percentile), robbery (80th percentile), theft (90th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 63.
- Violent
- 1,521 per 100k
- Property
- 5,647 per 100k
- Break-ins
- 691 per 100k
- Theft
- 2,459 per 100k
See the full Salisbury crime profile
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