CINCINNATI — A man has been charged with felonious assault after police said he stabbed a woman who was inside her car at a Queensgate gas station just after midnight Monday morning.
According to court documents, he was arrested for accosting and nearly attacking another person that same night. Police charged 32-year-old James Roark in two separate cases: He's charged with felonious assault for the stabbing and one count of menacing and a count of criminal damaging or endangering for the second incident.
In a video released by police, a man with a knife in his hand gets out of a black Honda and skips to a nearby car at the Marathon on West 8th Street. He can be seen opening the door on the driver's side before allegedly stabbing a woman in the back and the leg.
Just a half hour later, police said they arrested Roark for a second incident.
Court records say Roark attempted to open another driver's door while wielding a metal spatula "in aggressive manner causing victim to believe defendant was going to harm him," wrote an officer in the court documents.
A second document says Roark also "did attempt to break victim's vehicle windows and broke off vehicle door mirrors, vehicle tail lights of victim's 2007 Toyota Tundra."
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Police said Roark was taken into custody thanks to a tip into the Crime Stoppers program. He appeared in court on Feb. 2 where a judge ordered him to be held on a $300,000 bond.
Police said the woman was taken to UC Medical Center for treatment. There was no update on her condition.
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