Indianan injured in NLR stabbing

A man was stabbed Saturday during a dispute with a homeless man who is accused of assaulting his stepdaughter, North Little Rock police said.

Officers responded about 10:45 a.m. to a homeless camp on Maple Street near Rock Region Metro’s administration office, according to a report from the city’s Police Department.

Police said they found 43-year-old Michael Saxton of Indiana lying on the ground, bleeding from wounds in his left knee and upper left arm.

He told authorities that a man cut him with a knife as the two were arguing about his stepdaughter, who had accused the knife wielder of beating her while she was living on the streets.

The report states that the 21-year-old woman met the attacker in another state, and they rode the train to North Little Rock several days before.

Saxton had traveled to Arkansas to get back his stepdaughter, according to the report. The pair had gone to the homeless camp to pick up her belongings when the argument and subsequent stabbing occurred, they told authorities.

The 43-year-old was taken to Baptist Health Medical Center for injuries that were not considered life

threatening, police said.

The assailant, whom the 21-year-old knew as “Low,” was described as a white man in his late 20s with light-colored dreadlocks and facial hair. He was last seen walking east on S.A. Jones Drive, police said.