The victim of a stabbing in Onset on Saturday afternoon was discharged from Boston Medical Center the next day, according to the hospital.

The police have not announced  any arrests in the incident, which occurred at approximately 3:30 p.m. on Saturday in the stairwell of an apartment building at 239 Onset Avenue.

The victim was stabbed in the middle of the back, according to witnesses at the scene.

"He came in and said 'they stabbed me,' like it was no big deal," said the victim's partner, who was watching television in her apartment when the incident occurred.  "I saw he had a bloody nose, and asked if they stabbed him in the nose.  Then he turned around and his back was covered with blood."

Witnesses reported that two young man were also at the scene and possibly involved in the incident.

"One kid in a black jacket took off down the street, and another looked like he was going to go after him but he didn't," said one witness, who was in the store beneath the apartments when she heard a noise "like a herd of elephants" upstairs and saw some merchandise falling off the shelves.  The witness said that she asked the second young man what was going on, and he said it was "family trouble."

A neighbor speculated that the incident was drug related.  The building was "well-known to police," and "there were always people going in and out." The landlord posted signs specifying that people could not be inside unless accompanied by a tenant.  On the victim's partner's apartment, somebody had scrawled a message to not "knock on the door if [the apartment number] didn't buzz you in."

The victim's partner, however, said that she had no idea what had caused the incident.

"I have no clue, that's what's bothering me," she said, distraught after the incident and unable to go to the hospital because she had no vehicle.  "He's a Wampanoag, and the whole tribe is calling wants to know what's going on."