Teen stabbed with pool cue after collision

Published 7:59 am Sunday, April 24, 2016

An Indiana teenager reported a driver stabbed him with a pool cue after their vehicles collided near a Wal-Mart store Saturday afternoon.

First responders were dispatched to the Wal-Mart in Logansport, about 75 miles north of Indianapolis, late Saturday afternoon.

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The Logansport, Indiana Pharos-Tribune reports Korbin Sturgeon, 17, Walton, said he was heading east on High Street near the city’s Spencer Park in a purple Chrysler PT Cruiser when a blue Dodge pickup truck passed in front of him and slammed on its brakes.

Sturgeon said he was able to brake in time to avoid colliding with the truck, but a black Pontiac Grand Prix behind him pushed him into it.

The white male driver of the Grand Prix got out of the vehicle and drove part of a pool cue through the driver’s side window of the PT Cruiser, Sturgeon said. The disassembled pool cue had a screw thread protruding from the end. The attacker then drove that end into Sturgeon’s left forearm, he continued.

Sturgeon said he saw four people in the Grand Prix. They all appeared to be white with shaved heads, he added. He was unsure if they were adults, particularly his attacker.

“The dude who came out looked scrawny and young,” Sturgeon said, a bandage wrapped around his arm. “He was real scrawny. It took him a lot of tries to break my window. He tore my seat and poked me in the arm.”

Viktor Chaves, 18, of Logansport, was in the PT Cruiser’s front passenger seat and was not harmed.

“I was already on the phone with the cops, like, ‘Yeah, it’s going down,'” Chaves recalled.

Brett Funk, a probationary patrol officer with the Logansport Police Department, said he and other officers found the pool cue and broken glass in the middle of the 2800 block of High Street.

Another strike missed Sturgeon but gashed into the back of his seat.

Prompt Ambulance Service personnel treated Korbin Sturgeon outside of Wal-Mart.

Funk said at 6:30 p.m. that officers had yet to locate the pickup, Grand Prix or their occupants.

He referred to the incident as “maybe a road rage issue,” but was unsure of a motive as well.

The Logansport, Indiana Pharos-Tribune contributed to this story.