Care Flight called after stabbing early Friday morning at Whiskey Tavern
Submitted by Jeff Munson on Fri, 01/16/2015 - 12:22am
UPDATE: The suspect in a stabbing early Friday has been identified as Maxwell Thomas Scott Simon, 32. He is being held on $30,000 bail on a felony charge of assault with a deadly weapon. The incident happened at the Whiskey Tavern in the 3400 block of Highway 50 East shortly after midnight.
The male victim was flown by Care Flight to Renown Medical Center in Reno where he was treated and released, a Carson City sheriff's detective said.
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UPDATE: A suspect in the early morning stabbing at a bar on Highway 50 East was taken into custody at 12:51 a.m. He was located at a Moundhouse brothel. As of 2 a.m. the victim, who was flown to Renown Medical Center in Reno via Careflight, was said to have non-life threatening injuries, said Carson City Sheriff's Office Lt. Brian Humphrey.
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A man was stabbed early Friday morning at Whiskey Tavern in the 3400 block of Highway 50 East. The incident happened shortly after midnight and the suspect is at large, according to Carson City sheriff's deputies on scene.
The suspect vehicle is described as a blue Oldsmobile. Arriving fire and ambulance crews treated the victim who will was taken to the Carson City Airport where a Care Flight air ambulance transported him to the trauma ward at Renown Medical Center in Reno.
The stabbing apparently happened outside the bar and involved a patron who had been inside. Carson City sheriff's detectives were called to the scene. Lyon County Sheriff's Office has also been alerted.
We will update this story as more information becomes available.
