Man injured in fight at homeless shelter
BY PAT KIMBROUGH
ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
HIGH POINT – A man was stabbed several times during a fi ght at a local homeless shelter Monday, police said.
Jasper Tyrone Smith, 43, had come to Open Door Ministries for breakfast when a fight broke out in the kitchen area of the 400 N. Centennial St. facility around 7:30 a.m., according to High Point police and shelter officials.
In a melee that spilled out into the shelter parking lot, Smith sustained multiple stab wounds, including one in the chest,threein theleft arm and one in the back, police said.
None of his wounds appeared to be life-threatening.
He was taken to High Point Regional Hospital and discharged later in the day, according to a hospital spokeswoman.
Smith’s attacker left the shelter after the altercation, but a short time later, police arrested a suspect, Quinton Odell-Roderr Bailey, 20, at 304 Hobson St., according to police. Steve Key, Open Door Ministries’ executive director, said neither man was staying at the shelter at the time of the attack,though Smith,whoseaddress was listed by police as the 200 block of Fourth Street, had stayed therebefore.
Bailey had never been there before, he said.
Some type of argument between the suspect and victim took place prior to the assault, away from the shelter, Key said.
“Basically, (Bailey) came down here looking for (Smith),” he said.
No one else was injured during the scuffl e.
Bailey, of Asheboro Street, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and placed in the Guilford County Jail in High Point in lieu of a $ 40,000 bond, according to police.
Records show he is on probation stemming from an April 2006 conviction for receiving a stolen vehicle
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