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Title: Pictured: The baby-faced teenage girl who stabbed driver six times with an ICE PICK in dispute over parking spot
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Daily Mail
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/wor ... PICK-dispute-parking-spot.html
Published: Dec 22, 2009
Author: Mail Foreign Service
Post Date: 2009-12-22 21:44:20 by A K A Stone
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An American teenage girl allegedly stabbed a man with an ice pick in a dispute over a parking spot. Caitlen Watkins, 18, of Springfield, Missouri, was yesterday charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action. Watkins was a passenger in a vehicle when she confronted a driver on Sunday in a shopping centre car park, according to court documents. Witnesses told police a fight broke out and the other driver was stabbed half a dozen times with a wooden-handled, 5-inch ice pick. The victim, Lonnie Sowersby, told police he had parked his vehicle and was walking toward the store when two people in another car began 'yelling, cussing and gesturing towards him,' the report says. 'He said when he walked near the suspect vehicle (the driver) grabbed his coat near the sleeve,' the report said. The report does not include the full name of the driver, who has not been charged. He and Watkins told police that Sowersby 'cut them off' and took a parking space they were going to use. After being stabbed, '(Sowersby) said he turned around and punched Watkins in the face, to get her off him,' the report says. As Sowersby continued to grapple with the driver, Watkins allegedly got up and stabbed him several more times. The document says Sowersby suffered a total of six stab wounds in the back and sides, including a punctured kidney. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment. Watkins and the driver were arrested a short time later based on a vehicle description and license plate number provided by witnesses. Police also recovered a 4 1/2-inch ice pick on the floor board of the car, the probable cause statement says. Police said the other driver suffered a punctured kidney. A judge set Watkins' bond at $75,000. She did not have a lawyer. She has not yet had a hearing or entered a plea. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1237672/Pictured-The-baby-faced-teenage-girl-stabbed-driver-times-ICE-PICK-dispute-parking-spot.html#ixzz0aTZLfzRm
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