HALLOWELL — A man was being treated for stab wounds Monday evening after he said he was stabbed in a city cemetery.

Police Chief Eric Nason said the man was taken by ambulance to MaineGeneral Medical Center in Augusta with stab wounds that did not appear to be life-threatening.

Medics wheel a man into an ambulance on Water Street in Hallowell on Monday. The man said he was stabbed at Hallowell Cemetery. Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal

The stabbing was reported around 2:50 p.m. after the bleeding man walked into Dom’s Barber Shop, said barber Julie Keithley. The man said he had been stabbed in Hallowell Cemetery, about a half-mile away on State Street near the Augusta city line.

“He just walked in,” Keithley said. “He asked if he could use the phone.”

She said the man, who appeared to be in his 20s, was bleeding from his neck and abdomen.

Keithley said she didn’t know the man’s name but she did recognize him.

“He’s a customer of ours,” she said. “He comes in to get his hair cut all the time.”

John Gates, who was waiting with a friend for a haircut, helped the man to an open corner of the barbershop near the entrance so he could lie down.

“He was going into shock,” Gates said, adding the man never lost consciousness.

Gates said the man was holding a paper towel to the wound in his abdomen and was using a shirt to try to stem the bleeding in his neck.

“He just said he’d been stabbed,” Gates said.

He said the man entered the shop quietly and asked to use the phone. His entry was so calm that it took Keithley, Gates and the others a couple of moments to realize the man was injured and bleeding.

“He was very calm,” Gates said. “A little bit too calm.”

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