A Yazoo County man remains behind bars after allegedly stabbing his sleeping brother.
Donnie Skinner, 35, was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Terry Gann, chief investigator with the Yazoo County Sheriff’s Department, said the stabbing occurred last Wednesday at a home on McCurdy Drive.
Skinner lived in a camper trailer on the property while the victim lived at an adjacent home.
“Skinner walked into his brother’s room and stabbed him three times while he was sleeping,” Gann said. “Skinner then returned to his trailer and swapped the weapon for a bigger knife. He then headed back to his brother’s home, we assume to finish the job.”
A reserve deputy arrived on the scene and apprehended Skinner before he made it back to his brother’s room.
“The brother has been hospitalized and, last I heard, one the stab wounds pierced a lung,” Gann said. “He is being treated for that, and we have no word that he has been released yet.”
Gann said the motive of the attack remains under investigation.
