A Warsaw man was arrested Monday after allegedly stabbing his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend. Donaldo Velasquez, 24, Warsaw, was booked into the Kosciusko County Jail on a class B felony charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and is being held on a prosecutor’s hold with no bond. The victim, a 29-year-old male from Warsaw, was treated at KCH with non-life threatening injuries. According to a press release from the Warsaw Police Department, at approximately 1:25 p.m. Monday, Warsaw Police were called to Kosciusko Community Hospital for a stabbing that had occurred on East Winona Avenue in Warsaw. The release states the “investigation found that an ex-boyfriend had observed his former girlfriend and her new boyfriend parked at 715 E. Winona Ave., and he stopped to confront them. As the female was between the ex-boyfriend and the new boyfriend, the suspect reached in the pick-up truck and cut the victim with a razor blade on the right side of his face and head.” The suspect immediately fled while the girlfriend drove the victim to KCH. Officers tried to locate Velasquez. Nappanee Police located the vehicle and the suspect and he was taken into custody. The suspect was transported back to Warsaw and admitted his involvement in an interview with police.
