Man stabbed in daylight on city street
Victim sustains a severe wound in Dixon Street attack.
Date published: 2/9/2009
BY KEITH EPPS
Fredericksburg police are looking for a man who is accused of stabbing a man in broad daylight Saturday and leaving behind the car he drove to the attack.
Bryant "Dee" Davis, 39, is charged with malicious wounding.
Police spokeswoman Natatia Bledsoe said the 20-year-old victim was in the 1200 block of Dixon Street about 2:20 p.m. when a man got out of a gray, four-door vehicle and approached him.
After stabbing the victim in the neck, Bledsoe said, the suspect ran away, leaving his car running. The victim's godmother was among those who witnessed the attack.
Bledsoe said police learned that the suspect had borrowed the rental car from a woman.
The victim suffered a severe wound and was taken to Mary Washington Hospital. He identified Davis as the attacker, but claimed he did not know the reason for the attack.
Bledsoe said witnesses told police that about an hour before the stabbing, Davis and the victim had exchanged heated words outside the victim's home in Mayfield.
Keith Epps: 540/374-5404
kepps@freelancestar.com
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Date published: 2/9/2009
Most recent reader comments:
Ahh Mayfield, not a suprise
(posted by
Dirtnap300
, Feb. 10, 2009 9:25 am)  
What IS suprising is that this didnt end as a shooting with either a homicide or accidential death of a innocent by-stander as the result...
Sick people..
(posted by
Hizlove4lyfe
, Feb. 9, 2009 10:12 pm)  
Someone needs to stab his tale. It doesnt matter if there was a reason or not. People are just freakin crazy around here. WHAT HAS HAPPEN TO THIS PLACE....
Sounds like a murder attempt.
(posted by
MrZorro
, Feb. 9, 2009 8:23 pm)  
A stab in the neck means that the attacker was trying to cut the jugular vein. There has to be a reason, and the victim must know why he was stabbed. It is very suspicious that the victim knew the attacker, that there must be some serious motive behind this.
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