Police are investigating the death of a man who suffered a knife wound in his chest Wednesday afternoon at a house in the 1800 block of Haskell Avenue.

Police and Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical responded about 12:45 p.m., and the man was pronounced dead at the scene, said Sgt. Trent McKinley, a Lawrence Police Department spokesman.

Lawrence police on the scene Wednesday began a death investigation, taking statements from witnesses and collecting evidence. There were other people at the house with the man when he suffered the injury, police said.

Police did not release other details about the incident Wednesday, including the man’s identity.

Police were still at 1800 Haskell Wednesday afternoon, where a man was found with a knife in his chest and was pronounced dead on Wednesday January 23, 2013.

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