Robby Robertson
The Athens Review
Athens —
Randy’s Exxon in downtown Malakoff was covered up with police Tuesday evening when a man was stabbed in the parking lot of the station.
Information was sketchy Tuesday at about 6:30 p.m., while Malakoff Police, with help from Trinidad Police and the Henderson County Sheriff’s Department, worked the scene, marking off the area surrounding the vehicle where the victim was allegedly stabbed.
According to friends and the fiancé of the victim, Stephanie Marsh, Bradley O’Brien went to the store to get some cigarettes for them.
They received a call later that he had been stabbed in the chest and was taken to East Texas Medical Center Athens and then on to ETMC Tyler.
“All I know is my old man came up here to get is some cigarettes. and then we get a call that he had been stabbed,” Marsh said. “I don’t know why anyone would stab him. He is not even from here. He is from Ohio. I am from here, and we were visiting my family.”
April Murtaw, soon to be mother-in-law of the victim, said she thought they had the man who stabbed O’Brien in custody.
“I saw them handcuff a man, and put him in one of the cars,” she said. “I just don’t know why anyone would do that to him. He hasn’t done anything wrong.”
Blood was visible all over the vehicle, and on the ground beside it, confirming that he was stabbed very close to the Ford SUV.
At press time, the victim’s condition was undetermined.
