Police identify drive-through stabbing victim

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Amarillo police on Wednesday identified the victim of a Tuesday night stabbing at a fast-food drive-through.
About 8 p.m. officers responded to a stabbing call in the 2200 block of Southeast 21st A…

Amarillo police on Wednesday identified the victim of a Tuesday night stabbing at a fast-food drive-through.

About 8 p.m. officers responded to a stabbing call in the 2200 block of Southeast 21st Avenue., authorities said.

When officers arrived they found a neighborhood resident trying to render first-aid to Abel Delacruz Flores, 26, of Amarillo, who was in his car, police said. Flores had stab wounds in his stomach, arm, and thigh, and was taken by ambulance to a hospital, they said. Police said they do not believe his injuries are life-threatening.

Flores told officers that he was driving up to the Wendy's drive-through at 2000 Ross-Osage St. when he was stabbed, police said. He said a Hispanic man came up to the car's driver's side window and asked for spare change, and that he told the man he would give him change after he paid for his food, they said.

Flores told officers the man stepped away as Flores drove toward the ordering area, then the man came up to the window again and stabbed Flores in the forearm, police said.

Flores said he then leaned over to get away and the man stabbed him two more times while a second Hispanic man came to the passenger side of the vehicle and tried to open the locked passenger door, police said. Flores then drove away into a nearby neighborhood, police said.

After sending Flores to the hospital, police returned to the restaurant to watch footage from a restaurant camera and talk to a witness, officials said. Police believe the two suspects stepped out of what may have been a red four-door vehicle that pulled up beside Flores' car before the stabbing, they said.

Flores described the man who stabbed him as Hispanic, 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighing 140 pounds with a bald head and no facial hair, police said. Flores said the second suspect was a Hispanic man who looked to be about the same size as the first man and was wearing a black derby-style hat, they said. No arrests have been made, police said.