A fight in Ruston led to a stabbing on the Grambling State University campus when the parties involved encountered each other in a dormitory.
Javon Isaac King, 19, of North Little Rock, Arkansas, was arrested about 5:45 a.m. on March 23 after he allegedly stabbed another GSU student with a pair of scissors.
The alleged victim and his friend said King and the victim engaged in an argument at a Ruston apartment. The friend said King threatened to kill the victim and went to the kitchen to get a knife.
The friend then took the victim back to his dorm room in Wheatley Hall at GSU. The friend said about ten minutes later, the victim came outside saying King had stabbed him.
Witnesses told GSU Police they saw King and the victim fighting in the dormitory.
The witnesses told officers they saw King stabbing the victim, with one providing a video of some of the incident.
Before transport to the hospital, the victim told police he punched King first. King reportedly told officers he ran to his dorm room and retrieved a pair of scissors, returned to the first floor where the victim supposedly punched King in the face and King responded by stabbing him several times.
King was booked into the Lincoln Parish Detention Center for aggravated second degree battery. His bail was set at $250,000.
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