Uniontown man charged with attempted homicide
Police are searching for a Uniontown man accused of stabbing a man in Uniontown’s Grant Street Park Tuesday afternoon.
Darien Williams, 28, allegedly fled the scene on Fayette Street in a dark blue Jeep Cherokee after the stabbing, which was reported at 6:43 p.m. Tuesday. Police issued an arrest warrant after they did not find him at his residence on Grant Street or his workplace.
The alleged victim, Paul Hensley, lived at the same Grant Street address, court paperwork indicated. He told police the attack occurred while the two were talking in the park.
Hensley had not noticed Williams pulling the small, silver knife until he was stabbed, the complaint said.
Williams told Hensley, “I will kill you out here,” the complaint said.
After Williams left, Hensley ran over back to his home on Grant Street, where another resident called 911, according to the affidavit of probable cause. They then returned to retrieve Hensley’s bookbag, which he had thrown off as he was running away, the complaint said. Court paperwork did not list Hensley’s age.
Police responding to the scene noted Hensley bleeding from a puncture wound to the chest and slicing wounds to his arms, the complaint said.
Police were unable to find the knife after searching the pavilion, according to the complaint.
Hensley was taken by EMS to WVU Medicine Uniontown Hospital for further treatment before being transferred to Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, W.Va.
Williams is charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault, simple assault and harassment.
A preliminary hearing date had been set Wednesday morning.