Lawrence Police officers were searching for a man suspected in a stabbing Saturday night near downtown Lawrence after responding to a man with a blood-soaked shirt on Massachusetts Street.

The man’s injuries were not believed to be life-threatening, said Sgt. Michael Monroe, a police spokesman.

Police and Lawrence-Douglas County Fire & Medical received a call about 10 p.m. and found the victim, a 21-year-old Lawrence resident, on the sidewalk at the northwest corner of 11th and Massachusetts streets.

Monroe said the man got into an altercation with the suspect in the 1000 block of Kentucky Street, two blocks west of where officers found the victim.

Officers believe the suspect stabbed the man multiple times, Monroe said.

Monroe described the suspect as a bald, white male wearing dark clothing. He left the scene in a gray conversion van, Monroe said.

Police had not located the suspect as of 11:45 p.m. Saturday.

At the scene, officers and medical workers assisted the man on the sidewalk in front of the Watkins Community Museum of History, 1047 Mass. Blood had stained the back of his T-shirt near the right shoulder.

The injured man was taken by ambulance to Lawrence Memorial Hospital.