Grambling Police arrested a local man following the investigation of a stabbing that occurred Tuesday.
A man reported to the Grambling Police station Wednesday that at about 3:30 a.m. Tuesday morning as he was sitting in his vehicle with another person, Jakeem I. Monroe, 22, of Grambling ran up and stabbed him in the chest.
GPD officers located Monroe and questioned him at the police station. Monroe said he went for a walk at about 3:00 a.m. and saw the victim’s vehicle as he walked back to his residence. Monroe said he “blacked out” when he went to the vehicle and stabbed the victim with a pocket knife he had in his possession.
Monroe was booked at the Lincoln Parish Center for aggravated second degree battery.
Bail was set at $100,000.
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