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Throat slasher has attorney appointed
A Commerce teenager has had an attorney appointed following his arrest in connection with a stabbing incident.
Corey Dominic Heath, 17, has reportedly confessed to slashing the throat of the victim following an argument over a shirt.
Heath filed a writ of habeas corpus from the Hunt County Jail, where he remains in custody, seeking a reduction in his $35,000 bond on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
During a hearing Tuesday in the 196th District Court, Judge Joe Leonard appointed an attorney to represent Heath on the writ. No additional hearings were immediately scheduled.
Officers with the Commerce Police Department were dispatched to the 1900 block of Pecan Street at around 10:45 p.m. Thursday in reference to an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. According to a criminal complaint filed by the police department, four witnesses gave the same account of how the assault occurred. Heath and the male victim had engaged in the argument over the shirt Heath was wearing at the time, which the victim accused him of stealing from his residence.
The victim, also from Commerce, was transported to Hunt Regional Medical Center in Commerce by private vehicle and was later transported to Parkland Hospital by ambulance. The victim’s throat was reportedly cut from his Adam’s Apple to his left ear with a pocket knife, and that the wound required approximately 1,000 stitches to close.
According to the complaint, Heath was located in the 500 block of Harrison street and was brought to the Commerce Police Department for questioning about the incident. Heath was reported to have waived his rights and provided a statement in which he confessed and told the officers where to find both the knife used in the assault and the shirt. Both items were recovered.
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