Gainesville police arrested a 21-year-old Keystone Heights man for attempted murder after he stabbed another man eight times in the torso during a brawl in downtown Gainesville on Sunday morning.

According to Gainesville Police Department spokesperson Art Forgey, the incident occurred around 2 a.m. on Sunday when Brandon Aaron Elijah Goodwin, 21, stabbed a 24-year-old male victim several times in the chest at 200 S. Main St.  Goodwin was arrested and charged with attempted homicide.

The incident started after two groups of people left a bar in downtown Gainesville and were arguing with each other. Goodwin was in a third group that happened to be walking along Main Street near Second Avenue and, according to the arrest report, interjected himself into the argument despite not being a part of either of the two groups that initially left the bar.

The three groups then started fighting in the middle of Main Street and, during the brawl, Goodwin, along with two of his friends, targeted the victim. As Goodwin’s two friends engaged the victim, Goodwin approached the victim from the side and started stabbing him.

GPD officers arrived on scene and the victim pointed to Goodwin as the person who stabbed him.

Following a short foot chase, the suspect was detained by a GPD officer, Forgey told Mainstreet in an email.

The victim was transported to UF Health Shands Hospital on trauma alert with life-threatening injuries. He remains in the Intensive Care Unit.

Officers recovered the weapon and located multiple videos of the incident, according to Forgey.

Goodwin is being held in the Alachua County Jail.