Early morning stabbing leads to shut down of Roslindale Square street, discovery of crack cache

Evidence markers dotted both sides of Corinth this morning.

Updated Monday evening.

Boston Police report an argument outside the Imperial Kitchen around 5:30 a.m. turned bloody when one of the participants pulled out a knife and stabbed the other.

The victim was taken to Brigham and Women's Hospital and is expected to survive, police say. The stabber, meanwhile, managed to slice himself with his own knife before running down Corinth toward Fornax, dripping blood along the way - which gave police an easy way to track him to a Corinth Street apartment.

Michael E. Cole, 46, who was himself taken to the hospital, was charged with assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, mayhem and possession of crack with intent to distribute after he gave police permission to search his apartment and officers found "a plastic bag containing 19 individually packaged bags of crack cocaine.

Innocent, etc.