A 20-year-old man has been arrested after admitting he stabbed another man multiple times during an altercation on Monday, according to the Owensboro Police Department.
On Monday at 12:45 a.m., OPD officers were dispatched to the 1300 block of West 2nd Street in response to a report of an assault. Upon arrival, they found a man who said he had been involved in a fight with another individual and had stabbed him.
The victim was located in the 1000 block of West 7th Street with multiple stab wounds and was transported to Owensboro Health Regional Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Detectives from the Criminal Investigations Division responded to the scene and charged Davion K. Perez, 20, with first-degree assault.
