Police responded Sunday to a reported stabbing at Thunder Creek Apartments on Dakota Drive, a street where many North Dakota State students reside.
Police were sent about 3:40 a.m. Sunday to the 1900 block of Dakota Drive where a male had been stabbed twice in the back.
“During the investigation, officers were told the victim and the victim’s girlfriend got into a verbal argument,” Fargo Police Deputy Chief Joe Anderson said.
Fargo Police Sergeant Mike Erbes told The Forum that “the unidentified was taken to a local hospital and was conscious when police arrived at the scene.”
At some point, the victim’s girlfriend, identified as Erin Housey, called another male to the apartment.
This man was identified as Donald Poole III, Anderson said. Once Poole arrived, he and the victim engaged in a physical fight, at which point Poole allegedly stabbed the victim multiple times, Anderson said.
Erbes also told The Forum that police also arrested Housey, 27, for possession of methamphetamine with intent to deliver.
Prior to police arriving, Poole reportedly fled the scene and later taken to the Fargo Police Department for investigative purposes. Fargo Police arrested him for aggravated assault and local warrant.
Despite the proximity to NDSU’s main campus, which sits about 1,100 feet northeast of the Thunder Creek Apartments on Dakota Drive North, NDSU Police did not issue a campus emergency notification system timely warning.
“A timely warning was not issued because it was not in our Clery geography and an immediate notification was not issued because there was no ongoing threat,” said Mike Borr, University Police and Safety Office director.
CENS is meant to alert all system participants, namely students and university employees, to immediate threats to persons’ health and safety in the institution’s community, or events that significantly disrupt programs and activities at an institution.
CENS sends out timely warnings or emergency notifications depending on the reported incident’s nature.
Jack Dura contributed to this story.