Lakewood police avoid lethal force after two officers stabbed app.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from app.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Man stabbed 2 Lakewood cops, held officers at bay for hours, police say
Updated 1:13 PM;
A New Jersey man was arrested early Sunday morning after he stabbed two Lakewood police officers, leading to a standoff before he was subdued with pepper spray, police said.
Police responded to a report of an argument between a man and woman at a home on Lisa Robyn Circle shortly after 7 p.m. on Saturday. The woman told police her son, Stanley Williams, 25, of Lakewood, came down from his bedroom and began “acting erratically.”
Three officers knocked on Williams’ bedroom door and requested he come out. Williams opened the door and stabbed Officers Joseph Rusk and Matthew McAvoy in the face and head “without notice, hesitation, or warning” using a 12-inch, smooth-edge knife, according to police.
Lakewood police officers injured in knife attack, treated for minor wounds app.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from app.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A Lakewood man, whose mother reported him to police for acting erratically in the home, is in the Ocean County Jail following an attack on police officers inside the home.
Lakewood man talked into surrendering after attack on police 943thepoint.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from 943thepoint.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.