Ocean County authorities are investigating a stabbing that left a man dead overnight in Lakewood.
Police responded to reports of an assault in progress at the 7-Eleven convenience store located in the 200 block of River Ave. shortly before 11:30 a.m. Upon arrival, police found a vehicle crashed into a pole with a male victim inside seriously injured from an apparent stab wound.
The victim was transported to Monmouth Medical Center in critical condition and pronounced dead about an hour later.
Police are looking for a heavy-set black male last seen fleeing the area immediately after the stabbing.
The Ocean County Prosecutors Office are investigating.