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Sheriff’s Office: Adna-area husband attacked by wife with knife

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

A 56-year-old man who arrived home to find numerous stab marks in the wall of his home escaped serious injury when his wife allegedly pulled a knife from the wall during an ensuing argument, stabbed him in the stomach and held the knife to his neck yesterday evening west of Adna.

The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office said he wrestled the knife away and hid outside until deputies arrived.

Peggy Lee McCoy, 52, was arrested without incident, according to the sheriff’ office. She had armed herself with another knife, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.

Deputies called at 5:24 p.m. to the home on the 800 block of Ceres Hill Road were told the husband got home and found items in disarray, and noticed the knife sticking out of the wall and the other marks.

Brown did not yet know details of the cause of the dispute or what the woman was upset about. McCoy refused to give a statement, she said.

Brown said the husband declined aid for a puncture wound in the left side of his stomach.

McCoy was booked in to the Lewis County Jail for first-degree assault, Brown said.

She is expected to go before a judge this afternoon.