MILLERSPORT, Ohio -- Officials are searching for a man who is suspected of stabbing a Fairfield County woman at an area bar on Friday afternoon. Friday evening, authorities identified the man they'd like to talk to as John Young.

The stabbing occurred at Cudajo bar on Shell Beach Road in Millersport at about 1:30 p.m., NBC 4 reported.

Tamara Bailey, who is an employee at the bar, was stabbed in the chest following a quarrel at the bar.

The suspect escaped and is being sought by Fairfield County deputies, who searched on foot and with helicopter in a field not far from the bar where the incident occurred.

Young, who was known by the victim, is  described as a 42-year-old man, 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighing 175 pounds and wearing a dirty blue and white shirt with blood on it and jeans.

He has brown hair and blue eyes.

Forty-year-old Bailey was taken to The Ohio State University Medical Center and was expected to be OK.

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