MAHANOY CITY - Mahanoy City police are investigating an early Sunday morning stabbing that left one man dead.
Police Lt. John Kaczmarczyk said officers were called to a home at 739 E. Mahanoy Ave. about 4:40 a.m. for a report of a stabbing and found Lawrence Quinn, 52, lying in the kitchen area of the home with a single stab wound to the chest.
Mahanoy City EMS arrived but their attempts to revive Quinn were unsuccessful. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 6 a.m. by Schuylkill County Deputy Coroner Andrew Szczyglak, Shenandoah.
Two other residents who were inside at the time ran to a neighboring home to get help, Kaczmarczyk said.
At the scene were Schuylkill County Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Lehman, Schuylkill County detectives and members of the state police Forensic Services unit based at Troop L headquarters in Reading.
Kaczmarczyk said no charges were filed Sunday and that further law enforcement action is pending the results of an autopsy on Quinn and the results of processing the scene by state troopers.
As daylight broke, yellow crime scene tape blocked off the front porches and sidewalks of the home along with an adjacent building at 737 E. Mahanoy Ave. Police said the properties at 737 and 739 were combined into one home using the address of 739 E. Mahanoy Ave.
State police Trooper John Biever of the forensic services unit spent several hours marking off evidence and photographing the home where the stabbing occurred as well as the neighboring property where the residents ran to call for help.
Szczyglak said a full autopsy will be performed on Quinn early this week at Lehigh Valley Hospital near Allentown.
Kaczmarczyk said authorities determined the stabbing was not a random act and there is no danger to residents of the borough.
He said police are asking anyone who may have information pertaining to Quinn's death to contact them at 570-773-2313.