Monday, August 29, 2011

Minneapolis, MN: Minneapolis man dies after stabbing

A man died after he was stabbed early Sunday at a north Minneapolis home, and a woman stabbed at the same residence was taken into custody, authorities said.

The bloodshed was reported to police at about 2:40 a.m. at a home in the 2200 block of Girard Avenue N., according to police.

The man and woman were both taken to North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale, where he died, police said. His death marked the city's 20th homicide of the year and the first of two on Sunday.

The woman, 32, a resident of the home where the stabbings occurred, was booked into the Hennepin County jail late Sunday and held without bail on suspicion of murder.

Neighbor Shanell Stanback said that the woman had knocked on her door early Sunday asking for help. "He's over here beating on me, and I stabbed him," the woman told Stanback.

The woman's shirt was torn, part of her face was swollen and she had blood on her clothes, Stanback said.

On Sunday afternoon, a trail of blood still remained on Stanback's front steps.

Stanback said her children and the woman's kids often played together. "She's a nice lady," Stanback said.

A police incident report identified the man who was fatally stabbed as Devric D. Hughes, 36, of Minneapolis, who lived about 2 miles north of where he was wounded.

Hughes was "found ... bleeding from the back and kneeling next to a vehicle parked in the driveway," the police report read.

Police Sgt. Stephen McCarty said that it appears that the stabbings were the result of a relationship dispute, although nothing official has been determined.

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