Man charged in Newton stabbing

Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007

By Marcie Young
Charlotte Observer Staff Writer

Newton police have charged a man in last week's stabbing of another man, who fled in a car for help and was spotted driving erratically by police.

Horace Eugene Bost, 24, of Newton was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury; and armed robbery, both felonies, said Detective Spencer Cline.

On Thursday night, officers stopped Stephen Lewis Norman, 32, when they noticed his burgundy, 1996 Oldsmobile Cierra swerving through Newton's streets, authorities said.

Norman twice ran off the side of the road, hitting an embankment, mailbox, fire hydrant and a home. When police approached Norman, who was still in the car, they discovered that he had been stabbed in the abdomen.

Norman told police, authorities said, that he had been robbed by two men at E-Z Way Food on East D Street. Newton police are still trying to identify the second man involved in the robbery, Cline said.

Norman was at Catawba Valley Medical Center Tuesday and in critical condition. Bost was being held at the Catawba County Jail on a $200,000 bond.

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