TACOMA, Wash. — A Tacoma police officer was stabbed in the cheek on Friday night while he was responding to a welfare check call.
While a small group of officers went into the Winthrop apartment building on Commerce Street in downtown Tacoma, a man came out of an apartment and stabbed one of the officers in the face.
That officer was taken to Tacoma General Hospital. His injuries are considered non-life threatening.
Tacoma Police Department spokesperson Loretta Cool said the officer was released from the hospital Friday night and was at home recovering on Saturday.
Cool said the attack was unprovoked and police don't know why the officer was attacked.
During the welfare check, police found an individual dead in an apartment building. That death is not suspicious and is not related to the stabbing.
The suspect was booked into jail on an assault charge.