Published: July 29, 2009 11:01 am      

MORNING UPDATE: McDowell man charged in stabbing

WELCH — A McDowell County man has been arrested on multiple charges after allegedly stabbing another man several times in the parking lot of a bar in Anawalt late Tuesday night.

Kenneth Fowler Jr., 35, is charged with malicious wounding, brandishing, assault during the commission of a felony and obstructing, Trooper First Class J.S. McCarty, with the Welch Detachment of the West Virginia State Police, said.

McCarty said the victim, Shannon R. Mitchem, 42, of Anawalt, advised troopers he had been in a verbal altercation with Fowler while in the bar. After leaving the bar, Mitchem told police Fowler followed him outside and attacked him, during which time he was stabbed twice. Mitchem is in stable condition.

For more on this story see Thursday’s edition of the Daily Telegraph.