Brittany Horn

The News Journal

State police have arrested a woman they say stabbed another woman at a Dover-area apartment complex Saturday.

Troopers were first called at 5:56 p.m. Saturday to the parking lot of Alder Park Apartments in the first block of Webbs Lane after three women got into an argument, Master Cpl. Jeffrey Hale said.

Nineka Perkins-Hunt, 25, of Dover, was arguing with a 24-year-old woman and a 22-year-old woman when she produced a steak knife and stabbed the 24-year-old in the upper torso, Hale said.

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She then took the knife and slashed a hole in a tire of the 22-year-old's vehicle before fleeing to her apartment, Hale said. Troopers arrested here there shortly after, he said.

The 24-year-old woman was transported to Kent General Hospital where she was treated for her non-life-threatening injury, Hale said.

Perkins-Hunt was arrested and transported to Troop 3 where she was charged with second degree assault, possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony and criminal mischief.

After failing to post $25,100 secured bail, she was transported to Baylor Women's Correctional Institution near New Castle.

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