Detectives are trying to figure out what led to an early-morning confrontation between two groups in Santa Barbara which sent two people to the hospital with serious injuries.
It happened just after 3 a.m. Sunday, on the 500 block of State Street. Officers responding to reports of a fight found a man with stab wounds on Ortega Street, and a man with stab wounds on Cota Street.
They are both reported to be in critical, but stable condition.
There's no word on whether the confrontation was gang related.
