Tuesday evening’s knife attack between a brother and a sister continues to perplex sheriff’s deputies, who have now arrested both the brother who was knifed and the sister who they believe attacked him with the knife.
Jamel V. Hampton, 26, of St. Louis, and Ebony Hampton, 25, who lives in a rural area north of St. Robert, were both arrested Wednesday on other warrants unrelated to the assault.
King reported Tuesday evening that his deputies didn’t have any prior history with the brother and sister. However, that changed later Tuesday night when a sheriff’s detective went to Phelps County Regional Medical Center, interviewed the brother, realized his identity, and verified that he had active warrants for resisting arrest and for violating the terms of his parole. After the brother was released from the hospital, he was taken to the Pulaski County Jail and has since been returned to state prison.
The brother had led sheriff’s deputies, St. Robert police and tracking dogs on a Tuesday evening pursuit through fields north of St. Robert. Deputies had received a report from witnesses to a domestic violence incident at the 15000 block of Hallmark Lane that a “male covered in blood” had fled the scene of the knifing about 5:44 p.m. Deputies eventually located the brother in a trailer on Hartford Road near Highway 28, transported the brother for medical treatment, and arrested a friend of the knifing victim who had an active arrest warrant for an unrelated offense.
The correct identification of Jamel Hampton caused deputies to realize they had the wrong name for the sister as well. Ebony Hampton was located on Wednesday and arrested on an active Pulaski County warrant for first-degree assault and is being held in lieu of a $50,000 bond.
“At the time of her arrest, Ebony Hampton was in possession of several false identifications and several credit devices that did not belong to her,” King wrote in a prepared statement.
She also had “a number of prescription medications from the controlled substance list,” King wrote. Related investigations of Ebony Hampton connected to the false identification documents, prescription drugs and credit devices are ongoing, King said.
Charges in the knifing incident are pending but have not yet been sent to the Pulaski County prosecutor’s office, King wrote.