OLIVE TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Apr. 22, 2022) – Four days after a reported stabbing in a residence on Holland’s North Side, the matter is now considered “unfounded.”
That’s the term Ottawa County Sheriff’s Detective Captain Jake Sparks used on Friday in following up on an investigation into a Monday night incident at a home near 160th Avenue and Lakewood Boulevard in Park Township. Deputies and first responders were dispatched around 7:20 PM after a 22-year-old woman purported walked into her home, confronted a stranger in her bedroom, and after a brief scuffle, was stabbed in the abdomen.
While the woman, who told a media outlet that she was pregnant, was treated at Holland Hospital for a minor wound and released, with word that the unborn child had apparently been spared injury, the suspect reportedly fled on foot. A police canine unit failed to track the suspect.
On Friday, Sparks said in a department statement from its headquarters in the Fillmore Street Complex, “Throughout the week, detectives have continued to investigate this incident, meet with the victim and review evidence. It was determined that this incident did not occur as initially described by the victim. There is no unidentified suspect at large, and there is no threat to the community or public.”
Sparks didn’t say if any further action would be taken in this matter, nor did he say what led detectives to make this determination as to the validity of the report.
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