Houston man charged in slashing of women’s hand

HOUSTON — A 46-year-old man was jailed Friday on charges he slashed a woman’s hand with a knife.

According to an affidavit Alaska State Trooper Christopher Havens filed in the case against Terry Tomlinson, the call to respond to Forest Hills Drive came in at 11:13 a.m.

At the house troopers talked to the Tomlinson who told them he’d kicked the woman out of his house and she’d returned, banging on his door and smashing out a tail light on a vehicle in his driveway.

The woman denied doing any of that. She said that Tomlinson had flown into a rage after she’d gotten mad at him for smoking her cigarettes and drinking her beer.

She told troopers that Tomlinson made her sit on the couch and then, “grabbed a kitchen knife and repeatedly stabbed the couch next to her… Tomlinson told her ‘I am going to kill you.’ He held the knife to the back of her neck and said, ‘I can end it right now,’” Havens writes. “He took the knife and cut her on the back of her left hand.”

The woman pretended to go to the bathroom and ran out the back door into the woods. She stayed in the area, though, saying she didn’t want to leave without her dog.

Havens writes that there was a cut on the woman’s hand. He says he later talked to Tomlinson and found there was a blanket covering the couch. He asked Tomlinson to remove it and found slash marks. Tomlinson blamed them on the dog but Havens writes that they were more consistent with recent stab marks from a knife.

Tomlinson was arrested for assault and criminal mischief and jailed without bail pending arraignment. As of Monday evening he was still in custody, according to jail records.

Contact Andrew Wellner at 352-2270 or andrew.wellner@frontiersman.com.