Decatur man arrested in stabbing

Published 8:00 pm Tuesday, August 17, 2021

A Decatur man has been arrested after allegedly stabbing his mother’s husband, officials said Tuesday.

Irene Cardenas Martinez of the Decatur Police Department said officers responded around 8:30 p.m. Sunday to the 1400 block of East Moulton Street, where they spoke with a woman who said her son had stabbed her husband. The son, identified as 38-year-old Jason Oneal Stovall, “had barricaded himself in his room and would not comply with officer commands,” according to Martinez.

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Meanwhile, the victim had driven themselves to Decatur-Morgan Hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, Martinez said.

Martinez said officers with DPD’s SWAT unit broke into Stovall’s room, where he was “arrested without incident and charged with second-degree domestic violence/second-degree assault.” He was then booked into the Morgan County Correctional Facility with bail set at $40,000.