A minimum of six individuals sustained injuries in the nation’s capital on Thursday when a suspect, under the influence, began indiscriminately stabbing pedestrians, including himself.

The chaotic episode occurred around 3:22 p.m. in Washington D.C.’s Trinidad neighborhood. Officers from the Metropolitan Police Department responded to the scene where they discovered “numerous people suffering from stab wounds.”

Pamela Smith, the chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, informed the media during a press conference that the suspect was “in an altered mental state due to an unknown substance.”

“While walking down the street, the individual began stabbing himself, and then he stabbed a female acquaintance who was also with him,” Smith described.

All of the six victims are in stable condition. (FOX 5 DC)

“The grandmother and her granddaughters were getting in a car, primarily minding their own business, doing whatever they were doing,” Smith said.

Washington, D.C. has been plagued with crime in the past. In January, a man was sent to the hospital after protecting his 21-year-old girlfriend in a near-fatal carjacking in Northwest D.C.

In Oct. 2023, three girls in D.C. were arrested and charged in connection with the murder of a 64-year-old man in Northwest D.C. The victim, Reggie Brown, was beaten to death.

Fox News Digital reached out to the Metropolitan Police Department for additional information.

Authorities are investigating the crime. (FOX 5 DC)

Authorities are investigating the incident. No additional information is known at this time.