A man who allegedly sliced his mother’s wrist with a large kitchen knife during a domestic disturbance made a first appearance Friday in Clark County Superior Court.
Emmanuel Pena-Diaz, 22, faces an allegation of first-degree assault stemming from the Thursday morning incident.
Vancouver police were dispatched to an apartment in the 500 block of S.E. 123rd Ave. after multiple callers reported hearing a woman screaming in Spanish. It was then reported that a man and woman were outside yelling, and the man was hiding a knife in his sweatshirt, according to an affidavit of probable cause.
Responding officers found the injured woman standing on a sidewalk, bleeding profusely from her wrist. They ordered Pena-Diaz out of the apartment and detained him, the affidavit says.
Pena-Diaz allegedly admitted that he “did that wound” to his mother. He said he grabbed a kitchen knife to confront his father about an issue, and when his mother intervened, he cut her, court records say.
On Friday, Judge Bernard Veljacic set Pena-Diaz’s bail at $60,000. He will be arraigned Jan. 4, court records show.
