Cookie delivery driver stabbed, car stolen in Midtown Atlanta

ATLANTA — Police are searching for a man who attacked a delivery driver and stabbed him in the stomach before trying to drive off with his car.

The delivery man works for Insomnia Cookies, near the intersection of 8th and Spring Streets. He was outside the store when a man attacked him early Monday morning, according to police.

William Brown told Channel 2's Audrey Washington he heard about the attack while on his way to Insomnia Cookies with his daughter on Monday.

“It’s my third time coming here, and I really can’t believe it,” Brown said. “That’s crazy.”

He works at a business in the midtown Atlanta area and told Washington that his store doesn’t offer late-night deliveries for “safety and security reasons.”

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Police say at around 1 a.m. Monday, a strange man tried to open the driver’s door. The driver thought the man maybe mistook him for an Uber driver, so when he opened his door to explain, the man, according to police, stabbed that delivery driver in the stomach.

Police say after a struggle, the man got into the car and took off, but he didn’t get very far because the car had its emergency brakes on.

The delivery driver ran after the car and got the man out.

An off-duty police officer spotted the struggle.

"(The officer) noticed that one male had been stabbed. Then the suspect took off south on Spring Street," said Capt. Jessica Bruce with the Atlanta Police Department.

Paramedics rushed the driver to Grady Memorial Hospital where at last check, the victim was conscious, breathing and alert.

As for the attacker, he’s still on the loose. Police say he’s known to hang out in the area.

“(He’s) about 200 pounds, 5 feet, 7 inches, wearing a white shirt with green writing on it,” Bruce said.

Police said they will next go through surveillance video from the area to get more clues about the suspect.

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