Trial Date Set for Rochester Stabbing Case

Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News)- A case involving a stabbing at a Rochester mobile home park this past spring is heading to trail. 

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Rochester Police responded to a stabbing reported at Parkside Mobile Home Park on the morning of May 26. Responding encountered a 32-year-old victim outside of one of the units, who was later determined to have suffered a non-life-threatening stab wound. 

The investigation led officers to identify the suspect as 37-year-old Larnell Williams. Police said he initially fled the scene of the stabbing then turned himself in at the Eyota Kwik Trip several hours after the stabbing. 

The criminal complaint in the case indicated the stabbing stemmed from an altercation inside of one of the homes. Williams told officers he had been asleep when he heard a banging at his door and encountered a man he knew only by last name. 

Williams said the victim began attacking him and that he held the knife at the victim to defend himself while attempting to flee the residence. Two witnesses in the living room at the same mobile home told officers the victim and Williams were in a fight in the home’s living room that ended when Williams stabbed him in the abdomen. 

Williams was charged with one count of second-degree assault on May 30. In a hearing held Tuesday in Olmsted County Court, a judge set a pretrial date in the case for February 20. A jury trial is slated to begin on February 26.