Dev Patel, along with his friends, broke up a knife fight between a man and a woman outside a convenience store in Adelaide, Australia, on Monday. A local news station reported that the man was stabbed in the chest, but is expected to survive.

The Slumdog Millionaire actor’s representative issued a statement to a Hollywood publication, that read, “We can confirm that in Adelaide, Dev Patel and his friends witnessed a violent altercation that was already in progress outside of a convenience store. Dev acted on his natural instinct to try and deescalate the situation...The group remained on site to ensure that the police and ambulance arrived. There are no heroes in this situation and sadly this specific incident highlights a larger systemic issue of marginalized members of society not being treated with the dignity and respect they deserve.”

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Actor Dev Patel is being lauded for successfully stopping a knife fight in Adelaide, Australia. His representative confirmed the news in a statement to Variety.

According to Australia’s 7News, a man and a woman were fighting in the street outside a convenience store when the man was stabbed in the chest. He is said to have survived.

“In Adelaide, Dev Patel and his friends witnessed a violent altercation outside of a convenience store,” the actor’s representative said, adding, “He acted on his natural instinct to try and de-escalate the situation and break up the fight. The group was successful in doing so and remained on site to ensure that the police and the ambulance arrived.”

The statement from Patel’s team stressed that “there are no heroes in this situation and sadly this specific incident highlights a larger systemic issue of marginalised members of society not being treated with the dignity and respect they deserve”.

“The hope is that the same level of media attention this story is receiving (solely because Dev, as a famous person, was involved) can be a catalyst for lawmakers to be compassionate in determining long-term solutions to help not only the individuals who were involved but the community at large,” the statement said.

Patel, who’s starred in films including Slumdog Millionaire (2008) and Lion (2016), has been on a brief hiatus since playing the lead in The Green Knight (2021). He has projects such as Monkey Man and The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar in the pipeline.