White Jeep sought following stabbing that left man critically injured in Austin

Police are looking for a knife-wielding assailant who fled in a white Jeep after stabbing a man in the neck in Austin Tuesday night, according to Chicago police.

A man, 34, was in a "verbal altercation" with a person only described as a female in the 1700 block of North Mayfield Avenue at 10:10 p.m. when she stabbed him in the neck with a knife, police said.

He was taken o Loyola Medical Center in Maywood in critical condition.

She fled in a white Jeep and has not been arrested.

Area 5 detectives are investigating.