Woman Accused Of Stabbing Man In Bartow County

ACWORTH, GA — A Bartow County woman has been charged with aggravated assault after she allegedly stabbed a man in the chest during an altercation inside a pickup truck.

A Bartow sheriff's deputy was dispatched to a location in the 4300 block of Clark Circle around 2:20 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 13. A man was sitting in the driver's seat of a Ford truck with a wound to the right side of his chest.

The man's clothing, according to an incident report released by the agency, was "soaked with blood." A woman at the scene was rendering aid, but fire services and deputies took over until EMS crews arrived and transported the male to WellStar Kennestone Hospital for treatment.

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The woman, identified as Angela Michelle Erickson of Acworth, said she and the male were traveling on Glade Road in the Ford truck when he began angry.

"She said he pulled onto Clark Circle and began hitting her in the head and neck," the deputy wrote in the incident report. "She said during this she reached into her purse, retrieved her folded pocket knife, opened it (and) then was going to scare him with it to make him stop."

However, the woman said he lunged at her, and the blade went into his chest. She got out of the truck and "was freaking out." However, she told the deputy she began attending to the wound.

Erickson was taken into custody and booked into the Bartow County Jail at 4:40 a.m. Jan. 13 on one count of aggravated assault. Those jail records show she remains at the facility with a $6,000 bond.

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