Man Stabbed in Shakopee Domestic Gets Nearly Three Years in Prison

A man from Brooklyn Center who was stabbed and later arrested after a violent domestic dispute in Shakopee will spend some time in prison.

Clarence Joseph Gill Jr., 20, was sentenced to 2 years and 9 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to felony second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon in Scott County Court last week.

Two additional felony charges, domestic assault by strangulation and terroristic threats, were dismissed as part of a plea agreement.

According to the criminal complaint, police were called to the 400 block of West Second Avenue just after 11 a.m. on Nov. 28 for a knife injury. When they arrived, they saw a woman standing outside with Gill, who police say had a bandage wrapped around his waist and blood running down his pants.

Police say Gill told them he sat on a knife and, later, that he had laid down on a knife. But police said a stab wound in Gill's back, which lacerated his kidney, didn't appear to have happened the way Gill described. He was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.

The woman told police she had been at home in the morning and had not taken Gill’s repeated calls because she was talking to someone at Southern Valley Alliance For Battered Woman about how to remove him from her home. She told police she and Gill came home from work angry and an argument ensued.

The woman told police Gill grabbed a knife from the kitchen and threatened to stab her. She also said Gill poured bleach on a hat and held it to her mouth and, later, pushed pillows against her face to suffocate her. The woman said Gill grabbed the knife again and made stabbing motions at her, stabbing the couch near her. She was able to get the knife away from him and hit him in the back with it. At that point, she said, Gill stopped attacking her and she called 911.

Police report finding a hat soaked with bleach and a cut in the couch where the woman said Gill had stabbed it. An employee at Southern Valley Alliance said she had been speaking to the woman earlier in the day.

Gill was convicted in 2010 of felony domestic assault, and in September, of a misdemeanor charge of evading police, according to court documents.