CHATTANOOGA, TENN — According to an affidavit, a Chattanooga man accused of stabbing his brother and assaulting his brother’s girlfriend directed officers to a bag containing a knife.
According to the complaint, the incident occurred on Thursday at about 8 p.m. at a home on the 1700 block of Walker Avenue.
Officers saw the victim running down the street, and he informed them his brother, subsequently identified as 54-year-old Mark Lamar Parker, had assaulted him at their home.
According to the story, Parker was supposedly instructed by police to avoid the home, yet he returned.
According to the complaint, Parker approached his brother’s girlfriend outside the house and hit her in the face without saying anything.
He then went inside and stabbed his brother “under his ear on the right side of his head, close to major arteries,” according to the report.
Parker was described to officers by the couple as having fled into surrounding woods.
According to the report, police put up a perimeter and used drones to find Parker’s heat signature a few hundred yards west of the crime scene.
Parker made the decision to surrender with the help of a K9.
Parker said he was simply returning to his home to get some clothing, but officers soon learned of the earlier warning.
According to the report, Parker requested cops right before being taken to jail if they “would get his bag that he had stashed between several trees nearby.”
After that, the officer says
I found the bag as described. Inside the bag I did find a black folding style box knife.
As evidence, police entered the bag and its contents.
Parker is now facing charges of attempted first-degree murder, assault, and aggravated burglary.
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