Rolla man accused of ripping woman’s skin from neck

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A Phelps County man was arrested and charged after he allegedly yanked off the skin from a woman’s neck on Monday.

Steven Wolfe, 25, of Rolla, was charged on Wednesday in Phelps County with first-degree assault. He is being held at the Phelps County Jail on a $250,000 bond. A court date has not been scheduled.

The probable cause statement says police were called around 6 p.m. Monday for a report of an assault.

The statement says the victim made dinner for Wolfe and another resident and Wolfe became upset because he claimed the macaroni and cheese “belonged to him.”

Wolfe allegedly pulled on the victim’s throat, where she had recently had a new tattoo, and left a deep cut, the statement says. Police wrote when they arrived, there “was a copious amount of blood down the front” of the victim’s chest.

Police described the injury as being 3-inches tall “and stretching the entire length of her throat.”