Woman charged in stabbing incident

One person was arrested on Monday of this week in connection with a stabbing that stemmed from a fight.

Roanoke police were responding to a report of a fight on Old Lafayette highway when they were flagged down by Timothy Lynn Parker of Seymour Drive, Roanoke. Parker, who was bleeding profusely, got out of his car at the vacant building next to Jim’s Corner service station and ran over to the officer, shouting that he had been stabbed and needed to be taken to the hospital.

The officer called for EMT’s and then used a traffic glove to apply pressure to the wound until the ambulance arrived.

Mendia Elandia Rhodes, 42, of 848 Strong Street, Roanoke, was subsequently arrested and charged with first-degree assault. She was taken to Roanoke Police Department and then transported to the Randolph County Jail in Wedowee.

(For more arrests by the Roanoke Police Department see the January 30 issue of The Randolph Leader.)