Pennsylvania Self-Defense: Stabbing was self-defense :: 06/25/2016

WILKES-BARRE — Last week’s stabbing at Sherman Hills Apartments was done in self defense by a woman confronted by an intruder with a gun, according to charges filed against the man who was stabbed.

Wilkes-Barre police have charged Tareem “Mula” McDonald with illegal possession of a gun and multiple counts of burglary, terroristic threats and simple assault.

The 20-year-old is jailed in the Luzerne County Correctional Facility in lieu of $250,000 cash bail set by Magisterial District Judge Rick Cronauer.

Police said the woman, identified in court documents only as “Individual #3,” stabbed McDonald once in the neck and twice in the back as he tried to break into an apartment at gunpoint around 10 a.m. on June 16. The woman and others in the apartment were consoling McDonald’s live-in girlfriend, who complained that McDonald had beaten her earlier in the day inside their Sherman Hills apartment, police said.

McDonald had choked the woman who stabbed him a short time earlier, threatening “I will kill you (expletive),” according to arrest papers.

The woman grabbed a knife and chased him away. He returned with a gun, police said.

Upon his return, McDonald was screaming he was going to “kill everyone in the apartment,” police said.

“Individual #3 then grabbed a knife, chased McDonald from the apartment and stabbed him several times. Individual #3 was in fear for her life and the lives of the others in the apartment,” police wrote in arrest papers.

Investigators said McDonald wouldn’t cooperate with emergency crews about what led to the stabbing.

Police said they reviewed surveillance footage, which matched the woman’s story.

An acquaintance of McDonald is facing charges for attempting to conceal the gun, police said.

Police filed an arrest warrant for Barrkim Stallings, 24, charging him with carrying a firearm without a license, illegal possession of a firearm, tampering with evidence and disorderly conduct.

Investigators said Stallings wrapped the bloodied gun in his shirt, put it in a garbage bag and placed it behind one of the buildings in the complex, where it was found by police.

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