MIFFLIN TOWNSHIP — A 21-year-old man was arrested and charged with attempted murder Sunday after allegedly stabbing another man in the head inside an apartment on Koogle Road in Mifflin Township.
Bond was set at $100,00 cash on Monday in Mansfield Municipal Court for Quincey J. Courts, according to online court records, which listed his home address on Salem Avenue in Dayton.
Local defense attorney Jennifer Harmon was assigned to the case and a preliminary hearing is scheduled for Thursday at 1:15 p.m. before Municipal Court Judge David Badnell.
Courts was placed in the Richland County Jail after his arrest.
The name of the victim, who was taken to OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital before later being transported to a Columbus hospital, was not disclosed by the Richland County Sheriff’s Office in its report of the incident.
The victim remained hospitalized on Monday afternoon.
Deputies were dispatched Sunday at 10 a.m. to a Koogle Road residence in reference to what was listed as a “mental health incident.”
The person who called the RCSO said Courts “was acting crazy and telling people in the apartment that they needed to repent.”
As deputies were enroute, the caller reported Courts stabbed a man in the head inside the apartment and then left the apartment. Deputies asked the Mansfield Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol to also respond.
In his report, which Richland Source obtained through a public records request on Monday, Dep. Logan Dilley said he saw Courts walking away from the apartment building and the suspect began to run when he saw the deputy.
Dilley said a state trooper was pulling into the entrance of the apartment building and that he pointed the trooper in Courts’ direction.
“I got back into my patrol vehicle and drove toward the I-71 (northbound) on-ramp from Crider Road. Trooper (Casey) McCray began a foot pursuit with (Courts), who ran across Crider Road toward I-71,” Dilley said.
Dilley said he exited his vehicle and joined in the foot pursuit as Courts ran across the northbound lanes of I-71.
“(Courts) attempted to jump over the metal wire divider, but ran right into it and fell on the ground. Trooper McCray and I gave (Courts) verbal instructions to get onto his stomach at which point I handcuffed (the suspect),” Dilley said.
The victim back at the apartment had “several serious lacerations on his head area, as well as his neck, arms, hands and back,” Dilley said.
The victim was transported to OhioHealth Mansfield by a Mifflin Township EMS unit.
The knife allegedly used in the attack was later collected from a vehicle at the scene, found covered in blood. One of the people at the apartment told deputies Courts put the knife in the car.
Mansfield Municipal Court Judge Michael Kemerer electronically signed a search warrant for the apartment, according to the RCSO, which said it located a wallet inside that contained Courts’ ID card in it, as well as other evidence.