From the Sun Gazette
Feb 16, 2024Philip A. Holmes
Reporter
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JERSEY SHORE – One person was hospitalized and another locked up in the Lycoming County Prison following a stabbing early Friday morning in the 300 block of South Lincoln Avenue, according to Lycoming Regional police.
Dalton Lee Johnson, 22, of 163 Maplewood Ave., is alleged to have stabbed Aaron Fisher, 30, of Mill Hall, during a confrontation that began with “a fight between two (different) individuals and escalated into multiple individuals fighting,” police at scene were told, according to an affidavit prepared by Patrolman Jarod Mahosky
When one of the person’s threatened to assault Johnson’s girlfriend, Johnson admitted to police that he “pulled out a two-foot sword that he had been carrying and pointed it” at the man who made the threat, it was alleged.
Johnson claimed Fisher began fighting with him and “knocked away the sword,” the affidavit stated.
While Johnson and Fisher were on the ground exchanging punches, “Johnson gained the upper hand as Johnson (got) on top of Fisher,” Mahosky said in the court document.
Johnson later admitted that he “pulled out a pocket knife and in the heat of the moment, he may have stabbed Fisher in the side,” Mahosky said.
When officers arrived on the scene about 1:15 a.m. Johnson had already fled the scene, but Fisher “was in the grass on his side with a single stab wound in the middle of his back on his left side that was about an inch-and-a-half long,” Mahosky said.
Fisher was taken by ambulance first to Geisinger Jersey Shore and then transferred to UPMC Williamsport, where he was admitted in stable condition.
Soon after the stabbing, Johnson called 911 and said he wanted to talk to an officer. He was taken into custody without incident near Staver and Burke streets, about a quarter mile from the crime scene.
Taken before District Judge Denise Dieter just after 8 a.m., Johnson was arraigned on charges of aggravated and simple assault, recklessly endangering another person and possession of an instrument of crime. “I want to stay home. I (expletive) up. When he (Fisher) jumped on me, that triggered my past,” Johnson told the judge. He was jailed in lieu of $85,000 bail.
