Officials with the Clarinda Police Department report officers responded at around 4:15-p.m., Friday, to a stabbing incident at an apartment complex in the 900 block of  West Tarkio Streeet, where 24-year old Marshall Mahmud Graham, of Clarinda, had suffered stab wounds to his abdomen and left arm.  Graham was transported to the Clarinda Regional Health Center and was later air lifted to the University of Nebraska Medical Center for treatment of his injuries. Authorities say his injuries were not believed to be life threatening.

At approximately 11:40 p.m., Friday, 41-year old Ricky Dean Peterson, of Clarinda, turned himself in to Clarinda Police. He was arrested for felony willful injury and use of a dangerous weapon in the commission of a felony in connection with the stabbing.

Peterson was being held in the Page County Jail on $12,000 bail. The Clarinda Police Department was assisted with the investigation by the Page County Sheriff’s Department, Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department and the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation. Officials say the stabbing was an isolated incident, and at no time was there any reason to believe the public was in danger.