Bail is set at $500,000 cash for a 60-year-old Manitowoc mam accused of stabbing another individual with a butcher knife.
David J. Downs is charged with First Degree Attempted Homicide, Resisting or Obstructing An Officer and two counts of Substantial Battery.
A witness called police dispatch on May 17th after seeing a stabbing and Downs kicking the victim.
As police arrived on scene, Downs fled on foot into the house.
He then left with a taser eventually needing to be deployed to refrain him from resisting law enforcements efforts to be taken into custody.
Officers immediately began performing life-saving measures on the victim until they could be transported to a local hospital for additional treatment of the undisclosed sustained injury which required surgery.
The victim whose name and other pertinent information hasn’t been released, told authorities that he didn’t know what provoked Downs, other than that he became angry , shoving them to the ground, straddling over them and proceeded to slowly push the knife into their body, pleading him to stop.
The alleged weapon was located the following day inside the residence covered in blood.
Conditions of Bail include that Downs have “no contact” with the victim, possess no dangerous weapons and maintain “absolute sobriety.”
He remains in The County Jail on a Probation Hold and has an initial appearance scheduled for May 30th at 1:30.
