CLARKSVILLE POLICE IDENTIFY BOX CUTTER VICTIM

THE CLARKSVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT RELEASED THE NAME OF THE INDIVIDUAL WHO WAS REPORTEDLY ATTACKED WITH A BOXCUTTER EARLIER THIS WEEK.

            POLICE SAY 26-YEAR OLD WILLIAM AVON ARMSTRONG OF CLARKSVILLE WAS RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL AFTER HE WAS AIR-EVACED TO VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER DUE TO THE SEVERITY OF HIS INJURIES.

            AS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED, ON OCTOBER 6^TH, JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT, OFFICERS RECEIVED A CALL ABOUT A MAN SUSTAINING MULTIPLES WOUNDS TO HIS FACE, NECK AND CHEST FOLLOWING AN ALTERCATION WITH A MALE SUSPECT, NOW IDENTIFIED AS JOHN ANTHONY HARRIS JUNIOR OF CLARKSVILLE.

            ACCORDING TO POLICE, THE PHYSICAL ALTERCATION TOOK PLACE AFTER HARRIS MET HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND IN A PARKING LOT OF A RIVER SIDE DRIVE GAS STATION AND WAS APPROACHED BY ARMSTRONG.    POLICE SAY HARRIS WAS LOCATED A SHORT TIME LATER WITH A BOX CUTTER AND REPORTEDLY ADMITTED TO ATTACKING ARMSTRONG.

            HARRIS IS CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED ASSAULT AND IS LODGED IN THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY JAIL ON A 10-THOUSAND DOLLAR BOND.

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