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Wednesday, January 15, 2025

A local man cut his neighbor in the face with a razor Wednesday afternoon after a disagreement over audio volume.

According to the police report:

Sammy Jaye Proctor, 47, approached the victim’s campsite near Northwest Sixth Street and said to turn his music down.

The victim’s friend, who later witnessed the stabbing, responded, “[Expletive] you,” and Proctor angrily returned to his campsite nearby.

Proctor, a mason, soon became fed up with the noise and confronted his victim, who had left his own camp and was walking down a nearby wooded path.

He sliced the victim across the face with a box cutter, sending the victim falling to the ground then stabbed the victim,  causing “great bodily injury” and “disfigurement.”

The victim's condition is unknown.

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