Lawrence Police were interviewing a possible suspect this afternoon in the stabbing of a man found injured this morning in the parking lot of a drug store.

The victim was identified as a 27-year-old Lawrence man. He was treated and released at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

Police were called about 8:45 a.m. after a customer at Walgreen Drug Store, 400 W. 23rd St., found the man bleeding in the parking lot.

Lawrence Pollice, along with Lawrence-Douglas County Fire & Medical personnel, help a man who was slashed on the back of his neck during a party at his apartment in the 2200 block of Harper Street. The man was discovered bleeding about 8:30 this morning in the parking lot of Walgreens Drug Store, 400 E. 23rd, where he had gone for bandages. The man was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

Lawrence Police Capt. Ed Brunt said the victim spoke only Spanish, so it took police a few minutes to get a translator. The man was stabbed with a nine-inch knife in the back of his neck, police said The injury followed an argument during a party at his apartment in the 2200 block of Harper Street, police said.

Police began searching for and later made contact with the victim’s roommate, a 27-year-old Peruvian native, who is considered a suspect.

Police said they had been talking to about six witnesses who were at the party. The injured man went to the drug store to get bandages for his injury, police said.

Officers collected a beer can and bloody, rain-soaked clothing from the parking lot. They also were inspecting a white sedan in the parking lot.