September 28, 2010

CG Woman stabbed in apartment

      A woman was stabbed in the abdomen when an intruder came into her Center Grove area apartment and took her purse, police said.  Brandy Roland, 27, was stabbed Tuesday night during a struggle over a knife she had grabbed to protect herself, according to police.  She was taken to Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis with a non-life-threatening stab wound near her right hip. Her condition was not available Wednesday, according to a hospital spokesman.  The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office is investigating, and no one has been arrested.

         Roland, a resident of Copper Chase Apartments near Stones Crossing Road and State Road 135, told police that a man came into her unlocked apartment and tried to steal her pursue. She reached for a hunting knife on a nearby table to protect herself, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office.  The man took the knife from her and stabbed her. He then took her purse and left, she told police.  Roland described her attacker as a man with buzz cut or short hair, wearing a black shirt and blue jeans.  Her three children were home at the time but were sleeping.  Investigators interviewed neighbors in the apartment complex, but no one saw or heard anything, Lt. Doug Cox said.  On Wednesday, police found Roland’s purse outside a nearby building in the apartment complex. They weren’t sure what, if anything, was missing, Cox said.  Roland told police she didn’t scream when the man came into the apartment because she didn’t want to frighten her children.

         The apartment complex is new, and most of the apartments near Roland’s are vacant, Cox said.  Roland didn’t see the man leave and didn’t know if he was in a vehicle, Cox said.  She told police that she thought the apartment door was locked; but her son didn’t lock it when he came in earlier that day, and she never checked it because she thought it was locked, the report said.  Investigators are trying to get any other information they can and have been working with Roland to try to get more details of what the intruder looked like, Cox said.  Anyone with information about the incident may call investigators at 346-4604.  (Reprinted with permission from the Daily Journal)
   
     

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