By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
A Lacey resident trying to break up a fight between two individuals at his home during a party was stabbed, and a Centralia man is in custody.
Police responding about 12:40 a.m. yesterday to the residence contacted the suspect as he was leaving in a vehicle, according to the Lacey Police Department.
Twenty-year-old Stuart A. Acosta of Centralia was arrested for second-degree assault, detective Sgt. Terence Brimmer said.
The incident is still under investigation, Brimmer said, but it seemed as though a group of people showed up the homeowner was unfamiliar with and two of them got into a fight. One of the two was Acosta, he said.
The homeowner, also in his early 20s, stepped in between them and was stabbed in his lower abdomen, Brimmer said.
He said he wasn’t sure how seriously the victim was injured.
“As far as his medical status, I don’t know,” Brimmer said. “He was taken to Providence St. Peter Hospital.”
Acosta was booked into the Thurston County Jail, he said.
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