A young Hazel Park man is charged with assault with intent to commit murder after police say he attacked his father with a knife.
Ronnel Best, 22, was arraigned before Hazel Park 43rd District Magistrate Erika Morgan on Wednesday.
The suspect is currently jailed on a $500,000 cash bond and requested a court-appointed attorney at his arraignment.
Best and his father had an argument before the knife attack, police said.
Hazel Park Police Chief Brian Buchholz said the incident happened inside the house where the suspect and his father live in the 400 block of West Maxlow Avenue on Tuesday.
“The victim suffered stabbing cuts to his head and chest,” Buchholz said. “He ran to a neighbor’s house where they called 911 and tried to administer first aid.”
Police officers and a city fire department EMS unit went to the neighbor’s house where the father was.
He was hospitalized and later reported to be in stable condition following treatment at the hospital, police said.
“We recovered the knife that was used,” Buchholz said. “It was a kitchen butcher knife with a 6-inch blade.”
Best also ran from the house following the knife attack, police said, traveling about eight blocks to a gas station near Eight Mile and John R roads.
Best went inside the gas station and asked a clerk there to call police, Buchholz said.
The suspect stayed inside the station and waited for police to show up.
Officers soon arrived at the gas station and arrested the suspect, who did not resist being taken into custody, police said.
At the police station, Best admitted to investigators that he had stabbed his father, police said.
Over the last few years, Hazel Park police have been called to the house on family trouble and mental-health related reports.
The suspect has no prior criminal history, police said.
After Best was arrested he was taken to the Hazel Park police station and talked to police investigators, Buchholz said.
“He claims that sometimes he blacks out and he feels that his father is always against him,” Buchholz said.
Before the stabbing, police said the father and the suspect had argued about the young man playing video games.
Best is due back in Hazel Park District Court for a probable cause hearing before visiting Judge Charles Pope at 9:15 a.m. Feb. 27.
The attempted murder charge against him is punishable by up to life imprisonment.
If Best is ever released from jail during his pending court hearings he would have to wear an electronic tether under his bond conditions.
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