Rhodes

MILL CREEK — A man has been arrested in a stabbing incident that occurred on Sunday.

Mark Rhodes, 55, has been charged with malicious assault. He is being held in the Tygart Valley Region Jail on a $100,000 cash-only bond.

The stabbing incident happened on Sunday afternoon on Conrad Street, and sent Rhodes and a woman to separate hospitals, Randolph County Sheriff Rob Elbon said.

The incident happened around noon Sunday, Elbon said, noting that deputies from the Sheriff’s Office and troopers from the West Virginia State Police responded to a 911 call.

“There was a couple who got divorced on Friday, and on Sunday the male subject returned to the residence and stabbed the female in the back,” Elbon said. “He then stabbed himself in the chest four times.”

The woman was transported to the Davis Medical Center, while Rhodes was sent to a Morgantown hospital, under the watch of the Randolph Sheriff’s Office, the sheriff said. Once Rhodes was medically cleared, the warrant for his arrest was executed.

The Randolph County Emergency Squad and Huttonsville/Mill Creek Volunteer Fire Department also responded to the scene, Elbon said. Deputies Seth Kyle and Seth Davis were the first on the scene for the RCSO, and deputies Brice Cogar and Zachary Pingley later aided with the investigation