A suspect has been tracked down in a stabbing that sent a man to the hospital in The Villages.
Charles Randall Phifer, 49, of Oxford, was arrested earlier this month on warrants charging him with aggravated battery and battery.
Phifer had been living in Georgia, but returned to Wildwood this past October due to a death in the family, according to an affidavit from the Wildwood Police Department. A woman and a man were renting a house from Phifer’s sister, but he frequently visited the home and let it be known that he wanted to engage in sexual relations with the woman who was renting the home. She’d let him know she was not interested.
An altercation with the couple broke out on Oct. 27 and Phifer used a knife to leave the man with puncture wounds on his back and shoulder. He was transported by ambulance to UF Health Spanish Plaines Hospital…