Police say the suspect attacked her at 2 a.m. Tuesday at a home in the 2000 block of Castor Avenue.
Police received several calls about a woman screaming.
Officers arrived to find a woman stabbed in the chest and the head.
They rushed her to Temple University Hospital in critical condition.
Police later surrounded a home in the 1900 block of East Pacific Avenue, thinking the suspect was inside.
But when police entered that home, the suspect was not there.
The search for him continues.
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