Date turns violent when man is stabbed by woman he met on dating app, Georgia cops say
.jpg "A man was stabbed by a woman he met on a dating app inside his apartment in Atlanta, Georgia, on Oct. 3, police said.")
UPDATE: Georgia authorities have dismissed the charges against the accused woman as of March 21, 2023, court documents confirm.
The original story continues below.
An Atlanta man was sent to the hospital after he says a woman he met on a dating app stabbed him, according to police.
Officers received a call at about 5:30 a.m. Monday, Oct. 3, about a stabbing inside an apartment on Monroe Drive, police said in a news release.
The man, who was not named publicly, told police he was attacked by a woman he recently met online. Their date turned violent when the woman demanded that he send her money before stabbing him, the man told police.
Police did not say on which app the two met.
McClatchy News reached out to the Atlanta Police Department on Tuesday and is awaiting a response.
The man was “alert, conscious and breathing” when he was taken to a hospital for treatment. The extent of his injures wasn’t known.
Authorities arrested the woman on a charge of aggravated assault, police said.
She was booked into the Fulton County Jail where she remained as of Tuesday, online records show.
This story was originally published October 4, 2022 at 9:14 AM with the headline "Date turns violent when man is stabbed by woman he met on dating app, Georgia cops say."