A suspect is in custody Friday after at least nine people were stabbed in Seattle in a span of 38 hours, police said.

Police say a man committed a spate of random stabbings over two days in downtown Seattle, injuring nine people.

A maniac was arrested for stabbing nine people in a string of random attacks ... according to the Associated Press. One other victim was upgraded to satisfactory and another to serious condition ...

in which nine people were injured -- five of them on Friday afternoon, police said. “This incident was apparently one individual over a 38-hour period of time committing random assaults ...

possibly five other people have been stabbed in the area in a roughly 38-hour period, according to Seattle police. The suspect is believed to be linked to four of those stabbings, while one is ...