Stabbing Victim in Critical Condition
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Posted: 5:45 PM Nov 20, 2008
 Last Updated: 9:14 PM Nov 20, 2008
 Reporter: Jessica Ralston
Email Address: Jessica.Ralston@wsaz.com
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- An argument in Charleston has ended with one man in the hospital and another man under arrest.

It all started around 5:30 pm in front of the AFL-CIO building at the corner of Lewis St. and Leon Sullivan Way.

Police say Timothy Ward and Timothy Pierson were fighting when Pierson stabbed Ward in the chest several times.

Ward is in the hospital and listed in critical condition. Pierson is under arrest and charged with attempted murder.

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Posted by: Bobbi Jo on Nov 23, 2008 at 01:22 PM
Was you the one who spent the nights over at the hosptial with my Dad? And thx for the Support means a lot...
Posted by: Tonya on Nov 22, 2008 at 01:13 PM
Bobbi Jo, sorry about your dad, no negativity here, only support. Ashley, no one is sayng that a stabbing wouldn't make the news, just that if it happened at a residence, the stabbing would be the headline, not the residential address. All the news outlets started reporting the story as "stabbing at the shelter", had it been at your house, the headline wouldn't have been "stabbing at Ashley's house". It is just negatively, and as a friend of Tim's you should be upset about it as well.
Posted by: Bobbi Jo on Nov 21, 2008 at 10:53 PM
You know I really don't understand why ya'll are still talking about it...I am Tim Wards daughter...this is very hard for me to go through...I said things when I was little and now we just got it fixed...Can this comments please stop...for myself and the family...We would appreciate it...and so what if it is down by the shelter someone put"lol...isnt that down by the shelter" I love my Daddy sp can we stop some of the negative comments please like I said for myself and the family...
Posted by: Carla on Nov 21, 2008 at 07:20 PM
ASHLEY now that you voted obama in he gonna make it all better, he gonna sure the wealth
Posted by: TINA on Nov 21, 2008 at 07:18 PM
ASHLEY FIRST OF ALL IF THE STABBER IS HOMELESS HE AINT GONNA BOND OUT, LETS GET ONE THING STRAIGHT THEY AINT NO STABBINS IN HUNTINGTON, THEY ALL BE SHOOTINS. AND IF YOUR WERE SUCH GOOD FRIENDS YOU WOULD KNOW HIS CONDITION. SINCE YOU STAYED UP ALL NIGHT DID YOU GO TO WORK TODAY ?
Posted by: to all of you on Nov 21, 2008 at 03:40 PM
There are stabbings everywhere... in Charleston and Huntington. the suspect has long history of crime... do not make comments about places trying to help the less fortunate, maybe if you helped you would not have so much time to think negatively about everything in life...
Posted by: ashley on Nov 21, 2008 at 01:12 PM
tim ward is my friend. i think if any stabbing happened it would have made news so "tonya" maybe it was just the fact that the shelter is more well known and that is how people could find where it happened. anyway, my friends and i spent all night at the hospital with him. he is a fighter. they moved him to the 5th floor. i don't know if he's still critical but at least they moved him from MSICU. also, to clarify. the nurse said he has a broken jaw and was stabbed in the back and collar as well as his right arm. i was there.I paray he pulls through cause he's a really nice guy. people shouldn't look at homelessness so badly. it's the morals we all were raised on. i wish i could help him but that tim pierson guy is gonna get bonded out, truth be told. a $50,000 bond for attempted murder? what kind of government do we have? just because the guy is homeless does not mean he should get that small of an amount. i think it should have been higher but oh well.
Posted by: Mushroom on Nov 21, 2008 at 12:48 AM
Lol.......gee that's near the homeless shelter isnt it?
Posted by: hammer of justice on Nov 20, 2008 at 08:31 PM
leon sullivan way is a bad place in charleston.
Posted by: Tonya on Nov 20, 2008 at 07:09 PM
I have to ask, if this stabbing happened near a church or a restaraunt, would it have been breaking news with the business name in the headline? Is it more sensational because it happened near a homeless shelter? Is a stereotype being spread? The stabbing occured down the street from the shelter, but if the stabbing had occured in front of the shelter, it also would have been across the street from Soho's and the Capitol Market, but somehow that didn't make the headline.
Posted by: Concerned Citizen on Nov 20, 2008 at 07:00 PM
To clarify(as they did on the news at 6:00), the stabbing occurred in front of the AFL-CIO building. It is on the same street as the shelter, but down the street.
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