SUFFOLK, Va. — Two police officers and two other adults were stabbed in Suffolk Sunday night during an emergency custody call.
According to a release from the police department, officers arrived at the scene in the 100 block of Ashford Drive around 9:30 p.m. They talked to several people at the scene before they got to the adult male subject of the emergency custody order.
Police said that's when Travis Dionne Butler, 39, pulled out a knife and stabbed four people - two of them, police officers.
The victims, all in serious condition, were treated by Suffolk Fire and Rescue and then taken to a local hospital.
By Monday morning, three of the stabbing victims had been released from the hospital. One officer was still in serious condition.
Butler was taken into custody, and he faces two counts of aggravated malicious wounding, two counts of malicious injury of a police officer, and four counts of felonious assault.
He was taken to the Western Tidewater Regional Jail, and is not being offered bond.
13News Now spoke with neighbors who woke up to one of the victims knocking on their door.
"She was bleeding a lot from her head and then she was bleeding from her nose and I’m a nurse, so I see blood all the time, but I’ve never seen that much blood,” Amber Rie said.
In fact, there was a trail of blood down the street from what witnesses said was the victim's home to Rie's home where she asked for help.
“It was so scary. I didn’t know if they were going to come into our house and affect my family,” said Rie.
Her roommate, Oxmar Lopez, said the woman claimed to be the suspect’s mother.
“She was bleeding but nowhere near as bad as the two officers,” said Lopez.
Two officers and two adults had serious injuries. Suffolk Fire and Rescue took them all to the hospital.
Lopez said as he and Rie helped the woman who was hurt and his friend helped officers to calm Butler down.
"My friend was the one that jumped into action. He’s the one that was talking the guy down and saying hey man calm down or you might not live through this," Lopez said.