Police: Woman stabbed in chest during fight
Winston Police Officer Mike Miller talks to a Douglas County Sheriff's Deputy at the scene of a stabbing Thursday in the Green District. By Dan Bain KPIC NewsROSEBURG, Ore. -- A woman stabbed in the chest was found in front of a house south of Roseburg on Thursday morning, the victim of a stabbing after a verbal dispute between two groups of people escalated into violence, investigators believe. Officers say Tiffany Walker, 24, was found in front of a home near the corner of Carnes Road and Castle Street with a serious stab wound to the chest. The woman was taken to Mercy Medical Center. Officers went to a home on Bourne Street, off Castle Street, about a quarter of a mile away, and after an investigation, arrested 21-year-old Karina Sherman. Detective Chris Merrifield of the Douglas County Sheriff's Office says there appeared to be a fight in the roadway that led to the stabbing. "It appears there were two groups of people who were involved in an altercation," Merrifield said. "There were probably in the neighborhood of seven people involved in that. What started out as a verbal dispute between the two groups escalated into a physical confrontation, he said, during which the woman was stabbed. Mike Roe lives near the intersection where the fight took place and happened to be looking over his fence when the fight started. "I seen a guy and a girl was standing out here walking up the street and then a white Durango-Suburban type of vehicle come up and stopped, and four people got out and they jumped on her and started beating on her," Roe said. Roe said it's a bad area for drugs -- and getting worse. "There's a lot of it going on here," he said. Walker was transported to Mercy Medical Center with multiple stab wounds, and no word as of yet on her condition. Sherman was lodged at the Douglas County Jail on charges of Attempted Murder and Assault I.
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