Overview
- The assault, reported Wednesday around 4.15pm, left a man in his 20s with a stab wound to his leg and in hospital.
- Specialist officers found the injured man on Tamarisk Way after reports of an assault near the Greenstead Co-op on Clematis Way.
- Essex Police said the injury is not life-changing at this stage and no arrests have been made.
- Detectives have opened an investigation and are asking for information or CCTV and dash-cam footage, quoting crime reference 42/53397/26.
- Police mounted a large response with a helicopter overhead and a cordon around the shops, and local councillors urged calm and pressed for stronger security and wider CCTV coverage.