Police: Man stabs roommate over 'dirty dishes'

A man stabbed his roommate after an argument about dirty dishes, according to a police report.

Police arrived at an apartment in the 1600 block of East Grand Avenue at about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday on a report of a stabbing, the report states. They found a 48-year-old man standing in the apartment's kitchen with a inch and a half stab wound in his lower back.

Officers found William Clifford Nixon, 55, of Des Moines, the alleged stabber and the victim's roommate, sitting in a chair in another room with a what looked like a bloodied blade next to him. The victim said he came home and saw a note on the kitchen counter, but he couldn't read it.

He asked his roommate what it said, who told him it was about "dirty dishes."

A female witness in the apartment told police the victim pushed his roommate onto the bed twice. The roommate, who was cutting cheese in bed before the fight, said he used the cheese knife to defend himself.

Police took the victim to Iowa Methodist Medical Center for a non-life threatening stab wound, the report states.

Nixon was arrested and charged with assault or use of a dangerous weapon. He's being held at the Polk County Jail on a $2,000 bond.