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DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - A man was stabbed in the chest after police said he tried to break up a fight between friends in Decatur. 

It happened in the 1200 block of East Clay at 10:40 p.m. Monday. 

Decatur police said a 29-year-old man was stabbed in the left area of his chest when he tried to get in the middle of a fight. 

Police said he drove himself to the hospital, and his injury was not life threatening. 

DPD said the victim gave only a vague nickname for the person who stabbed him, and they do not have a name or a description of the suspect at this time. 

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