Teh One Who Knocks
09-04-2013, 11:24 AM
Written by News-Leader Staff
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Police say a Springfield man found his friend and girlfriend having sex at his apartment, then attacked the friend with a samurai sword.
Adam I. Howland, 36, told police he got home Tuesday night and heard something in his bedroom, where he found his friend and girlfriend.
“Howland said he started assaulting (the man) by punching him several times,” a probable cause statement says.
“Howland described himself as fighting like an ‘MMA’ fighter,” referring to mixed martial arts.
Howland told police he knocked the man unconscious at one point and that there was “blood everywhere.”
Police had spoken to the alleged victim at Mercy Hospital before visiting Howland.
The man had “several serious lacerations on his body” and told police Howland had attacked him with “some type of machete.”
When police asked Howland about the cuts, he said he had used the sword to strike the man.
“Howland said the sword was ‘bent’ from hitting (the man) and he was shocked that it cut (him) so deeply,” the statement says.
“Howland said he could see (the man’s) muscle from cutting him.”
Police spoke with the friend while he was being treated at the hospital for a punctured lung, according to the statement.
The man told police “Howland told him he could have sexual intercourse with his girlfriend” and that Howland “flipped out” when he found them together.
The girlfriend told police she could not remember if she’d had sex with Howland’s friend or if the two men had been in a fight because she had “passed out due to her intoxication.”
Police responded to a domestic disturbance at the home earlier in the evening.
According to an incident report, Howland had called police, and he and his girlfriend agreed to “separate from one another with no further arguments.”
Howland was charged Wednesday with first-degree assault and armed criminal action.
He’s being held in the Greene County Jail, with bond set at $25,000.
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Police say a Springfield man found his friend and girlfriend having sex at his apartment, then attacked the friend with a samurai sword.
Adam I. Howland, 36, told police he got home Tuesday night and heard something in his bedroom, where he found his friend and girlfriend.
“Howland said he started assaulting (the man) by punching him several times,” a probable cause statement says.
“Howland described himself as fighting like an ‘MMA’ fighter,” referring to mixed martial arts.
Howland told police he knocked the man unconscious at one point and that there was “blood everywhere.”
Police had spoken to the alleged victim at Mercy Hospital before visiting Howland.
The man had “several serious lacerations on his body” and told police Howland had attacked him with “some type of machete.”
When police asked Howland about the cuts, he said he had used the sword to strike the man.
“Howland said the sword was ‘bent’ from hitting (the man) and he was shocked that it cut (him) so deeply,” the statement says.
“Howland said he could see (the man’s) muscle from cutting him.”
Police spoke with the friend while he was being treated at the hospital for a punctured lung, according to the statement.
The man told police “Howland told him he could have sexual intercourse with his girlfriend” and that Howland “flipped out” when he found them together.
The girlfriend told police she could not remember if she’d had sex with Howland’s friend or if the two men had been in a fight because she had “passed out due to her intoxication.”
Police responded to a domestic disturbance at the home earlier in the evening.
According to an incident report, Howland had called police, and he and his girlfriend agreed to “separate from one another with no further arguments.”
Howland was charged Wednesday with first-degree assault and armed criminal action.
He’s being held in the Greene County Jail, with bond set at $25,000.