A Sunflower man is behind bars after allegedly stabbing a mother and her 21-year-old daughter on Aug. 7.
Antwain Tigues 36, of 619 Chandler St., is behind bars at the Sunflower County jail on a $500,000 bond, charged with aggravated domestic violence and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Tigues reportedly had his initial appearance on Aug. 9 before Judge Kuykendall Murry at the county jail and a preliminary hearing was set for September 10 at 1 p.m. The bond for each charge was set at $250,000.
According to Sunflower Police Chief Louis Baymon and the submitted report, at around 6:30 p.m., on August 7, Tigues returned to the home of his reported girlfriend in the 100 block of Stockyard Road in Sunflower and got into a verbal conflict that turned heated and physical.
Tigues’ girlfriend said that Tigues pulled her hair braids out, went into the kitchen, got a knife and chased her around a table. During that time she grabbed his can of beer and poured it out, he then allegedly followed her down a hallway and began stabbing her and cutting her across her face.
The daughter said that when she tried to stop Tigues from attacking her mother, he started stabbing her. “I didn’t realize I was cut until Lesha asked if he had stabbed me,” the daughter said.
The daughter reportedly received a call from an 18-year-old woman who was at the residence at the time who told her to come home because Tigues was messing with her mother “again.”
After the assault, Tigues then reportedly ran to a neighbor’s house where police later arrested him.
The girlfriend told police that she had asked Tigues, whom she refers to as Mark, to leave the apartment upon his arrival because she noticed that he was drunk. However, he would not leave, even after the woman reportedly told him to collect his things because she didn’t want him any more.
She said he ignored her request, told her that he pays bills at the home too and continued to season some ribs that he had in the kitchen sink.
At the time of the attack, a neighbor and her daughter were visiting Tigues’ girlfriend and using her computer. However, when the exchange began, the girlfriend asked the neighbor to leave and the neighbor reportedly asked if she needed to call the police. The girlfriend said she told the neighbor that she already had and they were on their way.
All three accounts of what happened, from the daughter’s viewpoint, the girlfriend’s and the 18-year-old witness, who upon witnessing the stabbings, ran outside for help, appear to coincide. The two victims were taken to area hospitals for treatment.
