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WILKES-BARRE — City police arrested Timothy D. Evans Jr. on charges he cut two women with a knife near the Sherman Hills Apartment Complex earlier this week.
Police allege Evans stabbed the two women, ages 25 and 40, at North Empire and Coal streets after a confrontation at Sheetz on Wilkes-Barre Township Boulevard.
In an unrelated case, court records say Evans was released from the Luzerne County Correctional Facility on Aug. 6 when his bail was modified from $150,000 to $50,000 unsecured on charges he fired several rounds into an occupied house on South Empire Street on Aug. 11, 2017. A baby was inside the house when shots were fired, records state.
According to a criminal complaint filed in the recent case:
Police responded to 74 N. Empire St. at 2:35 a.m. Sunday for a report about a woman being stabbed.
Officers learned two women were injured. One woman suffered stab wounds to her abdomen and the other suffered a slash wound to her chin.
The two women told police they left Sheetz in a vehicle, but one of them felt ill and wanted to walk the rest of the way. Both got out of the vehicle and began walking behind a man they identified as Evans.
The two women claimed they were involved in an altercation with Evans at Sheetz earlier that morning.
As they walked in the area of Coal and North Empire streets, one of the women apologized to Evans, stating she did not want any trouble.
Evans pushed one victim, who told her friend she was being cut with a knife. In response, Evans replied, “”Yeah b——, I’m cutting you.”
Evans and the women fell to the ground during the assault. Evans got up and ran away.
One of the woman suffered five stab wounds to her abdomen and the other required stitches to her chin.
Evans, originally from Newark, N.J., lists a local address at 91 N. Meade St., Wilkes-Barre. He was arraigned by District Judge Thomas Malloy in Wilkes-Barre on six counts of simple assault, four counts of aggravated assault and two counts of recklessly endangering another person. He was jailed at the county correctional facility for lack of $200,000 bail.