An Ocala man is behind bars after he allegedly broke into a tent at a local encampment and stabbed another man multiple times.
On Thursday, February 5, a Marion County Sheriff’s Office corporal made contact with the male victim at a local medical facility. The victim advised that he was asleep in his tent in the woods when he “woke up to being stabbed and sliced in his back,” according to the arrest report.
When the victim attempted to stand up, he stated that he was “stabbed on the top of his head.” The report mentioned that the victim then grabbed the wrists of his alleged attacker, who he recognized as John Fitzpatrick Essex…