Overview

• Eleven people were stabbed at about 7:15 p.m. Sunday at the Union Gospel Mission’s Men’s Mission shelter in downtown Salem, and all were taken to Salem Health Hospital with varying injuries.
• The male suspect, who had spent the previous night at the shelter, was apprehended as he tried to check in for a second stay.
• Shelter executive director Craig Smith said the attack unfolded at the check-in desk, injuring a staff member, and was captured on the facility’s security cameras.
• Witnesses described chaotic scenes inside the 50,000-square-foot shelter located directly across from Salem Police Department headquarters.
• Salem police spokeswoman Angela Hedrick said detectives remain at the site gathering evidence as they probe what sparked the violence.