A man is dead and was stabbed about 36 minutes after he originally called 911 for help.
The incident happened on Feb. 3 just after midnight near an apartment complex at E. Twain Avenue and Paradise Road.
According to a police report, Leary Adams called 911 at 12:09 a.m. stating he had been threatened by an unknown man, later identified as 33-year-old Cornelius Williams, who was waving a six-inch knife in the parking lot of Adams’ apartment complex.
The report states at 12:45 a.m., Adams’ girlfriend called 911 saying he had been stabbed in the neck and was bleeding. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:08 a.m.
The woman told police they had been hanging out at Adams’ apartment when he said he was hungry and decided to go to a nearby 7-Eleven for a snack. She said that sometime later, he ran back into the bedroom door and was holding his neck saying someone had stabbed him.
Through the course of the investigation, police found another person who lived at the apartment complex that claimed Williams had threatened them with a knife just after midnight, on the same night he allegedly stabbed Adams. However, the man told detectives that he yelled at Williams to the point where Williams backed away and put the knife back in his jacket pocket before walking away. As soon as Williams started walking away, the man told police he ran inside his apartment, watched Williams through the peephole of his apartment, and called police.