RISON - The Cleveland County Sheriff’s Department responded to a stabbing incident in New Edinburg Monday evening, Oct. 19,
Lt. Brad Young reported.
Young said that at approximately 5:40 p.m. Monday, the sheriff’s office received a report that a male had been stabbed at a residence on Farm to Market Road near New Edinburg.
Deputies and an investigator responded to the location and upon arrival Young said they discovered that the victim was a 43-year-old male who had suffered a stab wound to the abdomen and had been transported to the Bradley County Medical Center in Warren by private automobile.
According to Young, a witness told the sheriff’s department that Robert Dale Thompson, 64, and the victim were engaged in an argument when Thompson produced a knife and stabbed the victim in the stomach area.
It was reported that Thompson resides next door to the victim and witness. Thompson was interviewed at the scene and a knife was recovered.
Thompson was arrested on a charge of Battery in the First Degree, a class B Felony.
Young said the victim was airlifted from the Bradley County Hospital to a Little Rock Hospital where he underwent surgery to treat his wound.