A man is in stable condition at Temple University Hospital after he was stabbed near the corner of 18th Street and Susquehanna Avenue, police said.

Executive Director of Campus Safety Services Charlie Leone told The Temple News that a male, about 55 years old, stabbed another male in the lower abdomen near that corner Thursday evening.

Temple Police is pursuing the suspect and believe the incident was directed at the victim and not a random robbery, Leone said in an email. A TU Alert sent out around 8:15 p.m. called the incident an attempted robbery.

“This may be more of an argument gone in a different direction,” Leone added.

The alert also detailed a “possible known offender,” but the incident is separate from the string of robberies near Main Campus in recent weeks, on which Philadelphia Police recently released a video. The suspects in those incidents are teens or in their early 20s.

Joe Brandt can be reached at jbrandt@temple.edu or on Twitter @JBrandt_TU.