SIKESTON -- A man who was stabbed after allegedly breaking into a Sikeston residence faces burglary charges.
At 1:23 a.m. Sunday an officer with Sikeston Department of Public Safety was driving near West North and North West streets in Sikeston when he saw a man lying in the roadway, according to DPS reports. The man had been stabbed in the chest. During the investigation, officers determined the man who had been stabbed allegedly forced his way into a residence attempting to assault another male.
The homeowner told officers he and the other male were sitting in his kitchen when the suspect knocked on the door and asked for someone in the house. The homeowner said he told him to leave. The man forced open the front door, causing damage to the door, and he had a large wooden handle in his hand and started hitting the other male -- not the homeowner-- over the head with it. The homeowner said he wasn't sure how the suspect got stabbed.
However, another witness said he heard the suspect knock on the front door and ask to speak with a guy about some money he was owed. When they told him to get off the property, he forced the door open and hit the man over the head with a wooden pole, according to the witness. Then they got into a fight, and during the process of the fight, the suspect was stabbed, the witness said.
The victim-suspect -- whose name is being withheld, pending the filing of formal charges in Scott County -- had a 1-inch, horizontal wound to his left torso and a laceration on his elbow. He was transported to a Cape Girardeau hospital.
Officers could not locate a weapon or knife at the scene, and the incident remains under investigation.