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J&S Cafeteria attack arrest; employee threw boiling water & stabbed coworker, police say

Buncombe County Jail via WLOS

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    ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — An Asheville man has been arrested and charged after authorities say he threw boiling water and stabbed a co-worker with a pocket knife on Wednesday morning.

Asheville Police were called to the J&S Cafeteria inside the River Ridge Shopping Center just after 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020.

The victim was transported to Mission Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, while the suspect ran from the scene.

Soon after, authorities arrested David Eugene Daugherty, 49, and charged him with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury.

Daugherty is currently being held in the Buncombe County Jail on a $75,000 bond.

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