712 Digital Group - top

Update: Arrest made in Bluffs weekend stabbing

News

October 21st, 2013 by Ric Hanson

Police in Council Bluffs have updated a story we first reported Sunday morning. Officials told the Daily NonPareil 21-year old Lathen Bills, of Council Bluffs, was arrested in connection with the stabbing of two men. Detective John Clark told the paper Bills allegedly stabbed Bluffs residents, 33-year old Oral White and 39-year old Brian Ferguson. The incident took place at around 1:50-a.m. Sunday, in the 100 block of West Broadway.

Both victims were found lying on the sidewalk. White suffered stab wounds to his neck and shoulder, and Ferguson suffered a cut to his face. The men were treated at Alegent Creighton Health Mercy Hospital. Bills suffered a cut on his finger and was checked at a local hospital.

He was taken into custody late Sunday afternoon charged with one count of attempted murder, two counts of willful injury – one causing serious injury and one causing bodily injury – and one count of going armed with intent.  Bills was being held in the Pottawattamie County Jail on $105,000 bond.

The incident remains under investigation, and anyone who witnessed the incident or has any information is asked to call the Council Bluffs Police Department at (712) 328-4728.