A 25-year-old Scranton man faces charges after police said he slashed a man with a box cutter in the city early Sunday morning.
Officers responded to Geisinger Community Medical Center Sunday around 2:18 a.m. for a report of a victim with multiple lacerations, according to a criminal complaint.
Medical personnel treated the victim — identified by police as Joshua Keiser — for a four-inch laceration to the left side of his face, near his eye, and a 10-inch laceration to the back of his left shoulder, officers said.
When Keiser and a friend — identified as Cinnamon Sharp — stopped at a food truck at the intersection of Adams Avenue and Linden Street, around 2 a.m., Sharp attempted to break up a fight between two males but was punched in the face and knocked out, police said
Then, as Keiser tried to help Sharp, a male he identified as Kartier Sherry assaulted him with a box cutter, according to the criminal complaint.
During an interview with police at the hospital, Keiser told police he knows Sherry from Scranton High School, and added that Sherry’s sister, Kashmir Sherry, also assaulted him, officers said.
The incident was captured on video surveillance, police said.
Police charged Kartier Sherry, 736 Orchard St., with aggravated assault, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, simple assault, simple assault with a deadly weapon, and harassment. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Dec. 23 at 10 a.m.