MARSHALL, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — Calhoun County police say a man is in the hospital in stable condition after being stabbed by his half-brother Friday evening, December 3.
Deputies were dispatched to the 23,000 block of Junction Road in Convis Township around 9:45 p.m. where they located a 50-year-old male who had been stabbed in the neck. The victim was being treated by family members who were witnesses to the events.
The suspect, a 37-year-old male, and half-brother of the victim, had fled the scene and managed to evade police and K-9 tracking dogs for a few hours.
Over the next several hours Calhoun County Consolidated Dispatch received multiple calls of a male subject knocking on doors of residence in the surrounding area of the crime location. The description given of this male matched that of the suspect.
The suspect was apprehended in the 23,000 block of 15 Mile Road by Deputies and Michigan State Police around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday.
The 37-year-old male suspect was lodged at the Calhoun County Jail on the charge of assault with intent to do great bodily harm.
The victim was transported to a local hospital where he remains in stable condition.
The Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office was assisted by the Battle Creek City Police Department, the Michigan State Police, the Marshall Area Firefighters Ambulance Authority as well as the Bellevue Fire Department.
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