URBANA, Ill. (WAND) - One man was hospitalized following a stabbing in Urbana Friday morning.

The Champaign County Sheriff's Office said that deputies responded to a reported stabbing after 11 a.m. in the 1800 block of North Coler Drive in Urbana.

The Sheriff's Office stated that deputies arrived to find a 45-year-old man stabbed in the back. The victim said that he was riding an electric scooter along Country Club Road when he encountered Emmanuel Oginni, 19, of Chicago, walking in the area.

The victim told deputies that Oginni had "aggressively" come up to him, which caused him to fall off his bike.

Later, the victim followed Oginni, who was said to have become aggressive again, pulled out a knife and stabbed him before leaving the area. According to the Sheriff's Office, a witness o

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