CHARLESTOWN —
In a plotline even too bizarre for a country song, a man named Hank Williams Sr. was charged with battery after allegedly stabbing his namesake son Sunday following a family feud over a bag of potato chips, police say.
Charlestown Police Department officers were called to the 200 block of Arlington Avenue shortly after 6 p.m. Sunday after receiving a 911 call reporting a stabbing. When officers arrived, 27-year-old Hank Williams Jr. ran outside with his wife and sister claiming he had been stabbed by his father, Hank William Williams Sr.
According to the police report, Williams Sr., 56, was found inside the kitchen holding a phone. He was ordered by police to the ground, and before officers asked him any questions, he said, “I got my knife out and said to Hank, ‘I will cut you. I brought you into this world, and I can take you out of it.’”
The incident started when Williams Jr. and his sister began arguing because he accused her of eating his bag of potato chips, according to the police report. Williams Sr. said he told his son to step outside and calm down when the argument became heated, but his son cursed at him.
The argument continued between the brother and sister. The two began to pull presents from under the Christmas tree with the sister telling Williams Jr. to take back the presents he bought for her four children, according to the report.
Williams Sr. said he saw his son punch his sister and knock her into the wall, so he intervened and punched his son. The police noted there was no sign the sister had been hit.
Williams Sr. said he was then pushed to the ground by his son’s wife. He picked up a knife — about 8 to 10 inches long with a deer antler handle — and cut his son three times on the side of the chest, the report says.
Williams Jr. was able to wrestle the knife away from his father and said, “Yeah, you don’t have it in you anymore, do you old man?” Williams Sr. said, “No, I sure don’t.”
Williams Jr. said his father blew the argument with his sister out of proportion and jumped in his face, telling him to get out of her face and he said he would not. He said that’s when his father punched him in the lip and then picked up a knife and stabbed him three times.
Police noted Williams Jr. had fresh cut marks on the side of his chest. He refused medical treatment.
According to the police report, Williams Sr. had a strong smell of alcohol on him.
Williams Sr. was charged in Clark County Circuit Court with class C felony battery and could face two to eight years in prison if convicted. According to court records, no attorney has entered an appearance yet in the case.
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