By Cheryl Reza

COLORADO SPRINGS - A stabbing at a Halloween party on Sunday Colorado Springs East Side the victim, 23 - year old Gabriel Sanchez, is last reported in critical condition. Dee Jolley lives next door to the crime scene says, "I'm surprised it had to happen right here next door you know you never want that."

Police say the stabbing happened a little after three o'clock on Sunday morning. Lt. Mark Comte "officers arrived and found one victim had been stabbed in the leg it was a serious significant stab wound to his leg he had lost a lot of blood and he is in critical condition."

Police say there was a party at this house in the three thousand block of Hudson Street a call came in that 7 or 8 people were fighting. While Dee says she's shocked it happened next door to her house overall "in this day and age and all that and halloween and the age and you know we're not too far from gang city and all that kind of stuff either so no I'm not surprised."

Officers interviewed witnesses on scene and they have a potential suspect in mind. Dee says, "there's always a lot of traffic in and out of there, but they've been pretty good, pretty good neighbors."