NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — North Miami Beach police arrested a 59-year-old man on Monday after they said he stabbed his roommate over his failure to put groceries in the refrigerator.
According to an arrest report, investigators responded to an apartment in the 1800 block of Northeast 154th Street just before 6:30 p.m. and found the bloodied victim.
Police said they also saw Vincent Lenard Dukes, the victim’s roommate of six months, “standing inside with blood on his white T-shirt.”
Investigators said Dukes, angry over the groceries being left out, stabbed his roommate in the torso with a pair of scissors and then stabbed him with a knife in the left leg.
Police said Dukes admitted to getting into the argument. They said Dukes claimed that he stabbed his roommate after being kicked.
Officers arrested Dukes on a charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
As of Tuesday afternoon, Dukes was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $5,000 bond.
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