The suspect charged with first-degree assault for a stabbing incident last week that put the victim in a Nashville hospital claims he was being sexually assaulted when he grabbed a nearby knife and stabbed the alleged victim.
Hopkinsville Police Officer Megan Little testified at a preliminary hearing Wednesday morning in Christian District Court that 43-year old Tremayne Welch told police he and the adult male alleged victim had been cleaning an apartment at the Manhattan Motel on South Main Street and doing drugs when Welch began to fall asleep on a couch.
Welch said the other party approached him in a sexual manner with his pants down and attempted to make sexual contact and that’s when he allegedly picked up a knife and stabbed the man multiple times in the upper-body.
The victim was taken by EMS to Jennie Stuart Medical Center and then transferred by ambulance to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, where he was treated for a collapsed lung and other injuries and then released.
District Judge Lindsey Adams decided there was probable cause that a crime had been committed to send the case to a grand jury. Welch interrupted on the video feed from the jail before the hearing concluded and claimed he was being sexually assaulted when he grabbed the knife.
Welch admitted during a hearing for an unrelated misdemeanor case that he had failed to meet his obligation to attend required anger management classes.