Columbia police name suspect in Benton-Stephens apartment stabbing

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

The Columbia Police Department has named the man it claims stabbed another man on Friday in the Benton-Stephens area.

Grant Buxton, 44, was arrested on suspicion of first-degree assault, armed criminal action and drug possession, CPD wrote in a Friday night social media post.

Earlier on Friday, Columbia police put up crime scene tape around an apartment building in the city's Benton-Stephens area after a stabbing.

Officers were called to an assault in progress after noon in the 1600 block of Richardson Street. Police found the victim and provided them emergency care and arrested Buxton. An ABC 17 News reporter saw multiple evidence markers and about 10 police cruisers at the scene.

Police later wrote in a press release that two people were in an “altercation” and one person was stabbed.

The victim, also a man, was rushed to a hospital in critical condition.

No additional threats were reported or seen, police wrote.

Charges were not filed on Friday night. Buxton's information was not listed on the Boone County Jail roster on Fright night.