A homeless man stabbed someone over a drug debt in Key West, police said
A homeless man was jailed after Key West police said he stabbed a man over a marijuana sale debt on North Roosevelt Boulevard, the island’s main thoroughfare.
The April 17 altercation in the 3700 block of the boulevard was captured on a convenience store’s security video cameras and officers were able to get a close-up look at the attacker, police said.
Chad Allen Kirk, 34, was arrested that same night on a felony charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
Kirk is accused of stabbing Justin Ray Henson, 29, a homeless man who gave police a Michigan address.
Henson suffered three puncture wounds from a knife, one to his back and two to his abdomen, and was airlifted from Lower Keys Medical Center to Kendall Regional Medical Center in Miami.
Henson was in stable condition on Thursday, said police spokeswoman Alyson Crean.
Kirk remained at the Stock Island Detention Center on Thursday on a $20,000 bond.
Police were called to Uppy’s Convenience Store, 3700 N. Roosevelt Blvd., at about 8 p.m. April 17. They found Henson screaming in pain outside First Horizon Bank, which is next-door to Uppy’s.
Several witnesses described the attack and the suspect as a shirtless man with a neck tattoo who took off on a bike after stabbing Henson, according to the arrest report.
Kirk was found sleeping between some benches in a park off Government Road. He told police officers he had no idea what they were talking about.
“He kept on asking why he was being detained and that he was homeless from up north and that he had recently come down two weeks ago via Greyhound bus,” police wrote in the report.
Another man who was with Kirk at the park told officers that Kirk told him he stabbed someone because he was owed money for marijuana, police said.
The man also said Kirk told him he threw the knife in the water beside the boulevard, police said.
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