Man stabs woman after she refused to return money he’d given her for sex

A Rome woman was punched in the mouth and stabbed in the chest by an Alabama man on Nixon Avenue in the early morning hours of Nov. 24 after she refused to refund the money he’d given her for sex, reports stated.

According to a Rome City police report filed Friday:

The woman told police the Alabama man, who was driving, and his brother had picked her up while she was walking down Hardy Avenue. She only knew the brother, who was in the passenger seat.

They went to a Wilson Avenue home, where the woman was paid to have sex with the driver. When all three were back in the vehicle, they then went to buy drugs.

While on Nixon Avenue, the driver complained about the sex he just had, and told the woman to give him his money back. But she refused.

The man stopped the car and got out. He opened her door, punched her in the mouth and stabbed her in the chest.

She got out of the vehicle and was able to make it to the front steps of a Nixon Avenue home around 1:37 a.m. to bang on the door and rouse the homeowner from bed, telling him, “I got stabbed, call 911.”

Police found a blood trail running from the driveway of 214 Nixon Ave., where the woman pleaded for help, to across the street. The homeowner said he found the woman sprawled out across his front steps and called 911.

The woman was treated and released from Floyd Medical Center later that day, according to hospital spokesman Dan Bevels.