BY ROGER SMITH
MOUNTAIN CITIZEN

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“He stabbed him with a pocketknife with a 3-1/2-inch blade.” –Deputy Tyler Lafferty

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WARFIELD — A teen boy stabbed his mother’s boyfriend during the boyfriend’s attack on his mother and 10-year-old sibling Saturday at Riverside Apartments in Warfield.

Martin County Sheriff’s Deputy Tyler Lafferty says the boyfriend, Charles Garrison Raines, was hospitalized in stable condition.

Lafferty says Raines, who lives with his girlfriend and her children, was the primary aggressor and had been beating his girlfriend’s 10-year-old child.

“Raines was in the 10-year-old’s bedroom, had him pinned down on top of the bed in the corner beating him with a belt, and open-hand slapped him a few times in the face,” Lafferty said, adding that the 10-year-old had welts on his legs and red marks on his face.

“The mother comes into the bedroom and tries to get Raines off her child,” said Lafferty. “He then begins to push her. She tries to tase him with a stun gun, but he takes the stun gun away and breaks it.”

Lafferty says the 10-year-old told officers that Raines pulled a firearm at that point and said he would kill everyone inside the residence.

“At this time, a 17-year-old comes in and proceeds to stab Charles twice, once in the middle right side of the back, which possibly punctured a lung, and once on his right hip,” stated Lafferty.

“He stabbed him with a pocketknife with a 3-1/2-inch blade.”

Lafferty said the girlfriend drove Raines to a hospital, and Raines was transferred by helicopter to another facility for a punctured lung.

“They were not there when we arrived,” noted Lafferty.

Police did not charge the 17-year-old.