CCSO Investigating Stabbing Incident

The Cocke County Sheriff’s office investigating a stabbing that happened Friday at a residence on Holly Tree Lane. Deputies arrived at the home and found 86 year old Ernest Arrowood lying on the front porch with blood on both arms and his neck. Inside the home, deputies found 42 year old Adam Arrowood with a five inch laceration to his abdomen. Waylon Arrowood stated that he had applied pressure to the wound to help stop the bleeding.

He told deputies that Ernest and Adam had gotten into an argument outside and that Ernest had cut Adam with a razor blade. After getting Adam back inside the home, Waylon Arrowood says that Ernest came back to the house in an agitated state and Waylon says he took the 86 year old to the ground to stop the threat. Adam Arrowood was airlifted to the UT Medical Center in Knoxville. Ernest Arrowood was taken involuntarily to the Newport Medical Center for a psychiactric evaluation.