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Female suspect sought in stabbing incident

fr fugitiveTwo Haywood County men have been apprehended while one woman is still at large in connection with the stabbing of a 33-year-old Clyde man on Jan. 3.

Haywood County deputies were dispatched to Haywood Regional Medical Center shortly after 3 a.m. Jan. 3 in reference to a stabbing victim seeking help in the emergency room. Officers arriving on the scene discovered a male victim who had sustained injury consistent with wounds from a bladed weapon.

Further investigation indicated the man was attacked by three people at an apartment at 75 Forest Drive near Clyde. The victim was transported to Mission Hospital for treatment and has since been released.

On Monday, Haywood County Sheriff’s Office investigators took Christopher Ian Arwood, 31, into custody and charged him with felonious malicious assault in secret, felonious assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, and felony conspiracy.

Christopher Lewis Hester, 30, was arrested Tuesday and charged with felonious assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, and felony conspiracy.

Meanwhile law enforcement is still searching for the third suspect — Stephanie Lauretta Bauer, a.k.a. Stephanie Arwood, Stephanie Lapari, Stephanie Trull. She is a   white female, 34 years old, about 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighing about 150 pounds, with blond hair and blue eyes. Bauer has been charged with felonious assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, and felony conspiracy.

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The investigation is continuing.

Anyone with any information regarding Bauer’s whereabouts should call 828.452.6600.

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