VERNON, Ind. — A 31-year-old woman was stabbed twice by a man in a Jennings County home Thursday, police said.
The incident occurred in the 500 block of Washington Street in Vernon.
Deputies found the female victim in the kitchen with two puncture wounds to her chest. Her injuries are not believed to be life threatening.
The suspect, Scott Stokes, 48, of North Vernon, was hiding in the attic of the home and refused to come out. Police were able to take Stokes into custody a short time later.
Stokes has been charged with criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon, domestic battery, battery causing bodily injury with a deadly weapon, resisting law enforcement and intimidation with a deadly weapon.
Stokes is on parole from the Indiana Department of Corrections, police added.
He is being held in the Jennings County Jail on $2,055 bond.