STERLING – One of the men involved in the fight Monday night that led to a stabbing at a Sterling apartment is still at CGH Medical Center, being treated for a knife wound to the abdomen, police said Wednesday.
The 29-year-old was the most seriously injured of the three involved in the fight. The other two, 25-year-old Cassandra Urrutia and a 21-year-old man, were treated and released for minor knife cuts to their hands, Sterling Police Sgt. Alex Chavira said.
Urrutia was arrested Tuesday night for an incident that happened after she was taken to the hospital in which she spat on a CGH nurse, yelled at Sterling Police Sgt. Todd Messer and threatened his children, according to court documents.
She is charged with aggravated battery and threatening a public official, and is in Whiteside County Jail on a $100,000 bond.
The group of people involved in the fight have had issues in the past, Chavira said, though he doesn’t know yet what specifically sparked this one. Police have said that the fight was not drug-, crime-, or intimate relationship-related.
The two knives used – one a kitchen knife, the other a “decorative hunting knife” – were grabbed from the apartment the group of people was in, Chavira said.
“One side had knives, and the other didn’t,” Chavira said.
Police still aren’t releasing names of the other two men involved in the fight that happened about 9:14 p.m. Monday inside the brick apartment building at 1201 Sixth Avenue, and no arrests pertaining specifically to the fight have been made.
The investigation is ongoing.
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