Suspect and Victim ID'd in Apartment Stabbing

By: Staff Email

Posted: Wed 9:18 AM, May 08, 2013

Stabbing investigation at Villagio Apartments on Merchant Street, Sparks, 5/7/13

David Winship, accused of battery with a deadly weapon

Villagio Apartments, Merchant Drive, Sparks

SPARKS, NV - Sparks police say a stabbing at an apartment complex off Oddie Boulevard appears to have been a domestic dispute.

Shortly after 7AM Tuesday, police got a call of a man yelling for help from a car at the Villagio Apartments on Merchant Street. Officers stopped the car nearby in the area of El Rancho and D Street and found the victim with a stab wound in the back. They got him to Renown, where he is being treated for what police call a non-life-threatening injury.

The man who was driving the victim, 37-year-old David Winship, has been charged with battery with a deadly weapon and domestic battery. Victim Bobby Ford is recovering in the hospital. Police say they are roommates at the Villagio.

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