One in custody, one paralyzed after Maryville stabbing

One Maryville man is in custody and another is hospitalized after a stabbing on Silver Creek Lane Sunday morning, April 28. Officers said Warren Tra’Shaun Moates, 20, Swarthmore Lane, told them he stabbed a 19-year-old during a fight involving multiple people.

He has been charged with aggravated assault and is being held in lieu of a $50,000 bond pending a 9 a.m. April 30 hearing in Blount County General Sessions Court.

Maryville Police officers noted in a report that it was unknown whether the victim, who was not identified, would survive. At the time of the report, they said his injuries left him paralyzed.

Officers responded to a report of a stabbing on Silver Creek Lane at about 1:46 a.m. Sunday. On arrival, they said they found a 19-year-old man lying in the front yard of a residence with a knife in his lower back. They gave the man medical aid until American Medical Response personnel took him to the University of Tennessee Medical Center. Witnesses told officers a suspect left the scene in a red Honda.

According to the report, officers found the vehicle at Moates’ residence and spoke with him. He allegedly told them he had been “jumped” by multiple people and that he retrieved a knife from his car and stabbed the 19-year-old.

Officers said he was “covered in scratches” and had several bruises, but that he changed his story multiple times. Moates allegedly told them someone pointed a gun at him both before and after the stabbing.

Officers took him to Blount Memorial Hospital for treatment after he told them his ribs and hand were broken. He was later arrested at 7:01 a.m. Sunday and transported to the Blount County Correctional Facility.