COLUMBUS (AP) — Authorities say a man is in custody in a stabbing that wounded an Ohio police officer.
OFFICER STABBED:
Tonight-5/1/20@5:30pm-officers responded to an apt@Dresden St. on a suicidal male w/knife.
When officers arrived on scene, the male stabbed one officer in the neck and upper arm.
Suspect taken into custody.
Officer suffered non-life threatening injuries. pic.twitter.com/Q6ykVMNDFJ
— Columbus Division of Police (@ColumbusPolice) May 1, 2020
Columbus police say officers responded at about 4:45 p.m. Friday to a report of a man threatening to harm himself at the Whispering Oaks Apartments.
Sgt. James Fuqua, spokesman for the Columbus Division of Police, said the officer was stabbed in the neck about an hour later following what he called an “interaction” with the individual.
The police Twitter account reported that the officer was also stabbed in an upper arm.
He was listed in stable condition.
The suspect was taken into custody