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Monday, September 13, 2010
Courts - "Perry County Kentucky judge stabbed while eating lunch"
From the AP, a brief story dated Sept. 11th:
HAZARD, Ky. — A man who once stood before Perry County Judge Leigh Anne Stephens in court is in jail charged with attempted murder after authorities arrested him for allegedly stabbing her Friday at a restaurant.Authorities say Ronnie D. Brock attacked the judge at the Circle T Restaurant in Hazard with a steak knife and stabbed her five times before bystander Victor Gainer shoved Brock through a window, then sat on him until Perry County sheriff's deputies arrived.
Stephens was treated at a local hospital and released. She said she's lucky to be alive.
“I could feel him cutting me, but I didn't realize he had a knife,” Stephens said. “I just kept screaming, hitting and trying to get away.”
Brock appeared in Stephens' court in 2004 on a domestic case.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 13, 2010 09:28 AM
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