Updated at 2:21 p.m.
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – An argument over leaving garbage at a Glenoma campsite is what reportedly sparked a stabbing that sent a 40-year-old man to Harborview Medical Center yesterday.
Deputies called just after 5 p.m. to the Dog Patch campground at the base of Dog Mountain found the victim with a stab wound to his abdomen, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said the weapon was a large Rambo-style knife.
The suspect and two companions fled in a white van and were ultimately located on a logging road across from Kosmos Road, Brown said.
Brown said the victim and witnesses said an argument broke out between the occupants of a Ohio license-plated car and the Florida-plated van about the subjects in the two cars leaving the trash behind.
The victim, a 40-year-old from Los Angeles, California, was immediately transported to Morton General Hospital and then airlifted to Seattle, according to Brown. His condition this morning is unknown, as the sheriff’s office last information is from 11 o’clock last night, when he was still in surgery.
The victim said the suspect came at him and stabbed him, Brown said. The suspect said it was self defense, she said.
Theodore D Pojman, 21, from Ocoee, Florida, was arrested for first-degree assault and booked into the Lewis County Jail. Prosecutors are not filing criminal charges today, pending further investigation.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
You forgot to launch into the body camera speil.
This is what you can expect from a 3rd World country like America has become. People treat America like an Ashtray and do as they please. It’s just best to mind you’re own business anymore and be safe. Just realize that it’s just beyond our control to police morals anymore. Global tension has grown into the small towns that once were safe. People envade prestine areas like locust and devour any good that was once the norm. I myself had a gun pointed at me by a Centralia police officer for doing free community service. The World is an Ashtray and until all hell breaks loose and the blood of tyrants I’s spilled, expect anti christian values and morals to be a lost cause. Its not worth policing any evil doer that has no regard for Mother Earths beauty nor human life. Just mind you’re own business and step over the ciggerete butts that are upon the Ashtray of the Earth. It’s just to far gone to help now, were on a collision course with Armageddon and a violent future I hate to say.
That’s a great travel package. I’ve been on that flight. Paying the $100,000 fee for the all expenses paid airfare/food/lodging/emergency trauma surgery for me was one hell of a pain in the NECK though……..
Anyone interested in placing bets on how many people come to the conclusion the guy is a woman beater?
SNOOOGANS