By OLIVIA BERGMEIER
Salina Post
Neighbors fought with fists and eventually one with a knife, sending the other to the Salina Regional Health Center for his injuries over the weekend.
On Sunday, Dec. 10, the Salina Police Department arrived at an apartment complex in the 1200 block of South Santa Fe Avenue. There, officers spoke with 37-year-old Xavier Valle, the neighbor who fought with a knife.
According to SPD Lt. Kyle Tonniges, through questioning Valle, they discovered the other individual involved in the fight, a 40-year-old man, was at the Salina Regional Health Center getting treatment for his injuries.
"There have been some ongoing issues between them," Tonniges said. "One of them was leaving, the other coming home. They met on the front porch, and I guess all their frustrations just spilled out right there."
Tonniges said a confrontation between the neighbors escalated, and Valle stabbed the 40-year-old victim multiple times. Valle wounded the right side of the victim's abdomen, inflicted two lacerations on the left side of his head and bit him on the cheek.
SPD officers arrested Valle for aggravated battery.