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Young hero: Teenager recovering from knife wound after trying to break up domestic fight
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Posted by Jillian Kramer and Mark R. Kent, Staff Reporters July 23, 2009 5:00 AM
MOBILE, Ala. -- A teenage boy who tried to intervene during a domestic dispute was slashed with a knife twice by a man who had been shouting and pushing his girlfriend outside a gas station Tuesday night, according to Mobile police.
Thirteen-year-old Deonte Albert was admitted in serious condition to the University of South Alabama Medical Center; by Wednesday evening his condition was upgraded to good, police said.
Officers arrested 50-year-old Wilbert George late Wednesday morning at his home on North Carolina Street, just blocks from where investigators say he cut the teen in the parking lot of a Shell gas station in the 500 block of Virginia Street, south of downtown.
Deonte just finished seventh grade at Calloway-Smith Middle School in the spring, family members said.
Sgt. Ken Findley said the teen was walking with two friends when he noticed "a domestic dispute where there was pushing and shoving, and he was trying to do a good Samaritan thing and tell the guy to stop, and while he was trying to break it up, he was slashed."
The teen was cut once across his neck, Findley said, and another time across the left portion of his chest.
Police spokesman Cpl. Charles Bagsby said that both George and the teen left the gas station -- George to an unknown location and the teen to his home in the 900 block of South Dearborn Street, a block west and a block south.
By Wednesday evening, someone had cleaned the drops of blood that earlier dotted the cement stoop of Deonte's home. A 5-inch smear of blood across the cream-colored front door had been removed.
Surrounded Wednesday night by family, friends and two of his Calloway-Smith teachers in his room at USA Medical Center, Deonte described the events that led to the stabbing.
He said he and two friends had walked up to the Shell station, a popular neighborhood store to buy snacks and other needs, when he saw the man and the woman in a fight in the parking lot.
Deonte, who is 6 feet 2 inches tall, said he never physically intervened, but asked the man to stop beating the woman. The man stopped hitting the woman, he said.
"I then walked up to him and asked him why would you do this to a female, and that's when he cut me," Deonte said.
His grandmother, Cheryl Albert, told the Press-Register Deonte is the oldest of five children and the only boy. She said his four sisters range in age from 2 to 12.
"He's going to look out for his sisters and his mama," she said.
After the stabbing, the woman fighting with George stayed at the gas station, Findley said, and she was questioned by police and let go.
Investigators do not believe Deonte knew George, police said. Still, Deonte had a strong feeling about the encounter. "I feel that if a man should hit a female, he's a coward," he said.
Findley said the knife used to cut the teen had not been recovered, and that police had not determined the type of knife.
George was charged with first-degree assault. He was released from Mobile County Metro Jail late Wednesday on $7,500 bail, according to jail records.
Online court records show that George was convicted in 1986 of reckless endangerment and no pistol permit, but he served no time for either charge.
Young hero: Teenager recovering from knife wound after trying to break up domestic fight
http://blog.al.com/live/2009/07/young_hero_teenager_recovering.html
Posted by Jillian Kramer and Mark R. Kent, Staff Reporters July 23, 2009 5:00 AM
MOBILE, Ala. -- A teenage boy who tried to intervene during a domestic dispute was slashed with a knife twice by a man who had been shouting and pushing his girlfriend outside a gas station Tuesday night, according to Mobile police.
Thirteen-year-old Deonte Albert was admitted in serious condition to the University of South Alabama Medical Center; by Wednesday evening his condition was upgraded to good, police said.
Officers arrested 50-year-old Wilbert George late Wednesday morning at his home on North Carolina Street, just blocks from where investigators say he cut the teen in the parking lot of a Shell gas station in the 500 block of Virginia Street, south of downtown.
Deonte just finished seventh grade at Calloway-Smith Middle School in the spring, family members said.
Sgt. Ken Findley said the teen was walking with two friends when he noticed "a domestic dispute where there was pushing and shoving, and he was trying to do a good Samaritan thing and tell the guy to stop, and while he was trying to break it up, he was slashed."
The teen was cut once across his neck, Findley said, and another time across the left portion of his chest.
Police spokesman Cpl. Charles Bagsby said that both George and the teen left the gas station -- George to an unknown location and the teen to his home in the 900 block of South Dearborn Street, a block west and a block south.
By Wednesday evening, someone had cleaned the drops of blood that earlier dotted the cement stoop of Deonte's home. A 5-inch smear of blood across the cream-colored front door had been removed.
Surrounded Wednesday night by family, friends and two of his Calloway-Smith teachers in his room at USA Medical Center, Deonte described the events that led to the stabbing.
He said he and two friends had walked up to the Shell station, a popular neighborhood store to buy snacks and other needs, when he saw the man and the woman in a fight in the parking lot.
Deonte, who is 6 feet 2 inches tall, said he never physically intervened, but asked the man to stop beating the woman. The man stopped hitting the woman, he said.
"I then walked up to him and asked him why would you do this to a female, and that's when he cut me," Deonte said.
His grandmother, Cheryl Albert, told the Press-Register Deonte is the oldest of five children and the only boy. She said his four sisters range in age from 2 to 12.
"He's going to look out for his sisters and his mama," she said.
After the stabbing, the woman fighting with George stayed at the gas station, Findley said, and she was questioned by police and let go.
Investigators do not believe Deonte knew George, police said. Still, Deonte had a strong feeling about the encounter. "I feel that if a man should hit a female, he's a coward," he said.
Findley said the knife used to cut the teen had not been recovered, and that police had not determined the type of knife.
George was charged with first-degree assault. He was released from Mobile County Metro Jail late Wednesday on $7,500 bail, according to jail records.
Online court records show that George was convicted in 1986 of reckless endangerment and no pistol permit, but he served no time for either charge.
