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Briefs
Man charged in stabbing; victim in fair condition
By Times Staff Writer
Published November 5, 2005
HOLIDAY - A homeless man was arrested Thursday afternoon in a stabbing at the Mobil gas station at 1940 U.S. 19.
"He came at me, what do you expect me to do?" said 56-year-old Robert Paul Holcombe, when confronted by a deputy, according to a sheriff's report.
The report says the deputy found Holcombe in some woods near the crime scene, and Holcombe walked toward the deputy with his arms raised and turned, saying there was a knife in his back pocket. It was a black-handled folding knife. The report says Holcombe used it to cut another man across the abdomen during an argument. A sheriff's spokesman identified that man as 36-year-old Jerry Lee Campbell of 18532 Oshawa Drive in Hudson. He was flown to Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg, where he was in fair condition Friday.
Holcombe was being held in the county jail Friday in lieu of $20,000 bail. He faces a charge of aggravated battery.
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