By Brad Kellar
Commerce – A suspect in a Thursday night stabbing in Commerce is due in court Tuesday.
17-year-old Corey Dominic Heath is seeking a reduction in his $35,000 bond on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Heath has reportedly confessed to slashing the throat of the victim following an argument over a shirt in the 1900 block of Pecan Street.
Four witnesses gave the same account of how the assault occurred; noting that a male victim had engaged in the argument over the shirt Heath was wearing at the time, which the victim accused him of stealing.
The victim's throat was reportedly cut from his adam's apple to his left ear with a pocket knife, a wound that required approximately 1,000 stitches to close.