Carver Street Sheffield: Teenager chased and stabbed on city street renowned for serious crimes

The 19-year-old was injured in an incident on Carver Street in the early hours of yesterday. South Yorkshire Police said emergency services were deployed at 4.11am.

The force said there had been an altercation and the teen was “chased by an unknown group of men” and stabbed.

A police statement reads: “It is reported an altercation took place and the victim, a 19-year-old man, was chased by an unknown group of men. He was stabbed twice by one suspect, before the offender left the scene on foot.

“The victim was taken to hospital and his injuries have not been deemed life threatening or altering.”

Carver Street is one of the busiest streets in Sheffield city centre most nights and particularly at weekends because of the number of bars and clubs on the short stretch between West Street with Division Street.

In March, South Yorkshire Police appealed for information after a mass brawl on the street. A group of around 20 people left the Viper Rooms nightclub at around 3am on Wednesday, December 22 and violence flared on the Carver Street car park.

In October last year, a woman was sexually assaulted by a man who ushered her into his car on Carver Street before stealing her phone and purse.

Last June a 23-year-old woman reported being raped close to the Walkabout bar.

Last November, a report of an injection spiking at Popworld was one of a number of spiking incidents in Sheffield around that time said to have hospitalised victims.

Last August, officers were deployed following an altercation in or around Crystal Bar. A man in his 20s was stabbed during the violence which flared.

That same month there was a mass brawl outside Popworld.

Back in 2018, a number of men were stabbed in a gang-related brawl at Crystal on New Year's Day. Two men were rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries, and a further four were left with superficial stab or slash wounds.

All six men were from the Birmingham area and the incident was believed to have been 'gang-related'. Nobody has ever been charged over the knife attack.

In May 2014, University of Bradford student Anowar Tagabo, 25, from Sudan, died after suffering a head injury after being attacked outside Viper Rooms.

And in 2008, 23-year-old Brett Blake, from Longley, was stabbed to death in Uniq nightclub. He was killed by his life-long friends Danny Hockenhull, of Grimesthorpe, and Curtis Goring, of Firth Park, in a gang-related feud.

Police said the death was the result of in-fighting between the men, who were all members of the city's S3 postcode gang at the time and had been friends since they were children.

Because of how busy Carver Street traditionally is at weekends, there is normally a heavy police presence there.

Officers are keen to speak to anyone who may have witnessed the latest incident. Contact the force by calling 101, and quoting incident 156 of February 5, 2023.

Information can be reported online www.southyorks.police.uk/contact-us/report-something/ or by calling Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.