LAHARPE — An apparent disagreement Tuesday evening over politics led to a heated domestic altercation that eventually resulted in a knife attack.
Allen County sheriff’s deputies were called to the scene in the 1200 block of South Main Street in LaHarpe.
Sheriff Bryan Murphy said the male and female occupants of the house had been fighting, and the female’s son, Leeds J. Regan, 30 intervened, assaulting the older male, George Rodriguez, with a knife, leaving him with non-life-threatening wounds.
Regan then apparently threatened his mother with the knife, Murphy said, to force her and Rodriguez to hand over the keys to a 2006 Pontiac Grand Prix. The suspect then fled the scene.
Murphy said he may have been headed back to his home in Oklahoma, with his girlfriend.
Authorities in Oklahoma had been notified, Murphy said.
Leeds is 5 feet, 8 inches tall and weighs 155 pounds, and is a Native-American, deputies said.
Deputies are requesting he be charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, aggravated assault and aggravated robbery.
Deputies said the political dispute centered on President Donald Trump, although it wasn’t immediately clear whether the perpetrator was in favor of or opposed to the president.
AND BECAUSE this week hasn’t been crazy enough, deputies were summoned to a separate knife attack south of Iola early this morning, near the Lehigh Portland Trail.
Jason Sinclair told deputies two masked men assaulted him sometime after 2 a.m., hitting him repeatedly, and then cutting him with a knife.
The chaos didn’t end with the attack. Deputies said Sinclair became belligerent when ambulance personnel arrived to treat him, to the point he attempted to get into the ambulance and drive away.
