Woman arrested after Eveleth stabbing sends man to hospital

Eveleth police arrested a woman Thursday night after a stabbing on the 400 block of Jackson Street left a 42-year-old man with multiple stab wounds and sent him to a Duluth hospital.

Officers were called to the scene at about 10:10 p.m. for a disturbance. When they arrived, police said they found a woman holding multiple knives. She then fled from officers before the arrest was made.

The victim was first taken to Essentia Health in Virginia and then airlifted to a Duluth hospital, a sequence that points to the seriousness of his injuries and the speed with which a neighborhood disturbance turned into a major emergency response. The incident unfolded in a residential part of Eveleth, where Jackson Street sits close to the center of town and where a violent call can quickly draw in local police, ambulance crews and hospital transport from across the Iron Range.

Eveleth is a small city of 3,493 people, according to the 2020 Census, and the police department that responded serves Eveleth along with Fayal and Leonidas. The department’s headquarters are at 415 Pierce Street, and Chief Jesse Linde is listed among its employees. In a community that size, a stabbing on a single block is the kind of event that can dominate local concern long after the scene is cleared.

The Eveleth case also lands in a broader public-safety picture that still includes serious assaults across Minnesota. The Minnesota Department of Public Safety reported 9,826 aggravated assaults statewide in 2024, even as violent crime in greater Minnesota fell 3 percent that year. For St. Louis County residents, the Eveleth call is a reminder that knife violence remains part of the region’s crime landscape, not just a statistic buried in state reports.

Police have not publicly identified the woman in the information released so far. The stabbing investigation is expected to continue as officers sort through witness accounts and the events that led up to the disturbance on Jackson Street.