New Details Emerge, Victim Speaks Out After Weekend Stabbing At Lake View Club

TUSCALOOSA, AL — The victim of a brutal stabbing incident at the Lake View Club over the weekend is recovering as new details have surfaced following the arrest of his attacker.

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As Patch previously reported, 57-year-old Edward Williams of McCalla was charged with one count of second-degree assault after a physical altercation in the club's parking lot in the overnight hours on Nov. 22 that resulted in one man being stabbed numerous times and transported to UAB Hospital for treatment.

The stabbing victim, 41-year-old Kevin Deerman, gave Tuscaloosa Patch permission to use his name in a follow-up story about the incident and told this reporter that he had received 78 staples and about 100 stitches following the incident, which left him with injuries to his face, torso, back and left arm.

"My intestines were coming out, so I pushed them back in with my fingers a few times," he said. "They look good, though. My face is messed up and I don’t have anything working on my left side of my face, and just got a bad report and may lose my left arm, but I’m alive."

According to a deposition obtained by Tuscaloosa Patch, the altercation was captured on video surveillance and shows Deerman approaching Williams and pushing him once, at which point Williams produced a foldable knife and "slashed toward" Deerman multiple times.

The video mentioned in the court filing purports to show that Deerman forced Williams to the ground and fought with him until they were broken up by others — a notion Deerman confirmed to Tuscaloosa Patch.

The deposition also noted that Deerman never displayed "any dangerous weapons of his own before or during the incident."

"When he went to leave I did follow him outside and asked him 'hey man, what is your problem with me?,' because he had been talking trash about me for months on social media," Deerman told Patch from the hospital on Tuesday. "I’ve never said a bad word about the guy. Anyway, when he started cussing me, he was pushing up on me. I pushed him back and he pulled a knife from his side. It was on after that."

Despite the extensive and severe nature of his injuries, Deerman insisted that he didn’t press any charges at the time of the incident and has no plans to do so.

"If the state picks [the case] up, I’ll testify on his behalf, as crazy as that may sound," he said. "It was two grown men that had a problem and settled it. No need to have law involved, other than I’m still laying in the hospital and three surgeries later, I’ve just got a bad update and may lose my left arm above the elbow. No one hit anyone from the back. It was fair and square, he just cheated a little."

He went on to commend the first responders who likely saved his life and praised the staff of the Lake View Club for its handling of the incident, insisting they had nothing to do with the violent quarrel between him and Williams.

"It was in the parking lot and the bartenders were working their butt off like crazy," he said. "Honestly, I can’t wait to get out of here and go get one of Jeff’s steaks or porkchops. That place is nothing like it used to be. I hate it happened there because they shouldn’t be held accountable or judged anyway."

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