Two men hospitalized after a fight led to a stabbing in northeast Columbia neighborhood
Ryan Shiner
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
One man is out of the hospital Monday night after a fight with his brother led to a stabbing in a northeast Columbia neighborhood.
An ABC 17 News reporter saw at least eight Columbia police officers in a yard in the 1400 block of Lambeth Drive. Police said they were called there just before 5:45 p.m. Monday.
Officers were seen putting police tape around a pole in the yard. The reporter also saw an ambulance and fire personnel at the residence.
A woman who arrived to a home in the neighborhood told ABC 17 News that they saw a man get stabbed following a fight.
“I start hearing screaming and Look over and I start watching these two guys start to scream at each other. They start to throw trash at each other. They were wrestling on the ground,” Emily Dearing said. “I watched one of them stab the other one. He was stabbed I think about three times from what I could see.”
Columbia Police Department Lt. Andy Muscato said at the scene that two men were involved in a fight and that the men know each other. Police later confirmed they were family members. A woman claiming to be the mother of the two men told an ABC 17 News reporter they were brothers.
Dearing tells ABC 17 the area isn’t a stranger to crime. Back in May, ABC 17 News was at a standoff on the same street where two people were arrested.
“That house back there had a police blockade happening on our street because of a search warrant or arrest warrant that was happening over there, like a few months ago,” Dearing said. “I mean, I have young siblings and I don’t like the fact that they live near this.”
Both were brought to University Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Muscato said.
Muscato said no one is in custody and an investigation is underway. He also said there is no threat to the public.
A family member told ABC 17 News that one of the men was already out of the hospital on Monday night.