A 22-year-old East Lansing resident was stabbed while attempting to break up a fight early Sunday morning.

Eric Miller, a criminal justice and psychology senior, was stabbed twice in the back by an unidentified male at a party inside a private residence on the 100 block of Gunson Street around 1:15 a.m., said East Lansing police Capt. Juli Liebler.

The victim received a horizontal wound 4 inches long and an eighth inch deep and a vertical wound 8 inches long and a quarter inch deep, she said.

His roommate, nursing junior Nick Laughlin, took him to Sparrow Hospital in Lansing where he received about 40 internal stitches and 45 external stitches to close the two wounds.

“When I originally saw the wound, it was at least an inch wide,” Laughlin said. “I told him he wasn’t going anywhere and ran inside to get some toilet paper and put pressure on the wound. Then I ran home and got my car, and we took him to the hospital.”

Miller said he is recovering well and even went to classes Monday.

“I’m doing all right now, I’m just a little sore,” he said. “I didn’t even know I was stabbed at first, but my friend saw it and took me to the hospital.”

Matt Hurd, a general business sophomore, is also one of Miller’s roommates. The incident resulted from a fight between Hurd and one of the suspects.

Hurd told the suspect to calm down or leave the party, but when he turned around, the man hit him in the head, he said. Miller then attempted to break up the fight by pinning the man. During that time one of the friends stabbed him twice.

Police did not provide detailed enough descriptions for The State News to print.

The three men fled the scene out the front door of the home onto Gunson Street. They may have left in a black or dark gray early-1980s model Cadillac with hydraulic shocks.

Miller told police he may have seen the vehicle drive by the address again about half an hour later, taunting those outside the home.

“No one at the house knows who those kids were, and if anyone else does Iwant to tell them to contact the East Lansing Police Department,” Miller said.

Police said it is unknown at this time if the assailant was affiliated with the MSU community in any way.

Anyone with information on the incident or the suspects’ identities and whereabouts is asked to contact East Lansing police Capt. Juli Liebler at 319-6865 or to call (877) ELPD-TIP.