Police: Downtown Orlando fight escalated into stabbing

The Orlando Police Department says officers responded to a report of someone waving a knife downtown before a stabbing on Friday night, disputing social media claims that police failed to respond.OPD said it received a call at 10:10 p.m. Oct. 9 about a person waving a knife near 22 S. Magnolia Avenue. Two bike units were dispatched at 10:13 p.m. and arrived three minutes later, the agency said.Officers searched the area but did not find the person, according to the department.At about 10:31 p.m., officers saw a physical altercation between two people at Orange Avenue and Central Boulevard, OPD said. The department said it received no additional calls about either person before, during or after the stabbing. Multiple people witnessed the fight and recorded cellphone video, but no one called 911 to report it, according to OPD.One of those cellphone videos showed Kevin Newhard swinging a belt at Deaveon Jaquan Brown, police said.Newhard produced a knife in a sheath, investigators said, bu