PHOTOS/VIDEO: Suspect charged in Sunday stabbing

Posted: December 15, 2014 - 6:28am
Updated: December 17, 2014 - 3:01am

Update:

Melissa De La Garza
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The Johnson County District Attorney's Office has charged Melissa De La Garza, 20, with aggravated battery with intentional harm. De La Garza appeared in court on Monday and her bond was set at $5000 cash or surety.

De La Garza made bond and was released to house arrest with GPS monitoring on Tuesday after being served with a no contact order. Her next court appearance is scheduled for December 24th.

Original report:

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Shawnee Police are investigating after a man was stabbed during a domestic dispute Sunday evening.

Officers were called to an apartment in the 6300 block of Cottonwood Street in the Cottonwood Park Apartments at 8:26 p.m. following a neighbor's report of a disturbance. The neighbor reported hearing a man and woman arguing inside an upstairs apartment.

Major Dan Tennis says officers arrived and contacted two, 20-year-old, residents of the apartment who were boyfriend and girlfriend.

"They discovered the male victim had a laceration on his arm," according to Major Tennis.

The police department's press summaries website states, "subjects became involved in a physical disturbance resulting in the victim being stabbed."

Johnson County Med-Act transported the man to an area hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Cottonwood Park Apartments building where the incident occurred
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Police arrested a 20-year-old woman at the scene. She has been booked into the Johnson County Adult Detention Center and faces one felony count of aggravated battery with intentional harm. She has not been formally charged.

Tennis says detectives are still working on the case.

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The apartment where the stabbing occurred
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