HUNTLEY – Authorities are searching for a man who stole a taxicab after stabbing the driver in the neck, according to the Huntley Police Department.

Officers responded to Prime Outlets near Route 47 and I-90 in Huntley about 9:30 a.m. today for a report of a man who had been stabbed, according to a news release. The taxicab driver was conscious and alert when police arrived.

The 30-year-old cab driver was able to make contact with an employee at the outlet mall who then called 911, deputy police chief Mike Klunk said. The driver, a resident of Hoffman Estates, was later transported to Sherman Hospital in Elgin with non-life threatening injuries.