A 15-year-old Longview boy who police last month said received “severe, but non-life-threatening” injuries in a stabbing actually suffered only a cut to his arm, court records show.
Longview police responded to a call after 8 p.m. March 12 from someone saying “mom was stabbed” and arrived to find the teenager, who was 14 at the time, standing in the front lawn “with an obvious laceration to his right forearm.”
The officers arrested Branson Luck, 22, who was standing in the entryway to the house. They found blood inside the house and, in the bedroom, another victim — Massy Yos, 31, who had a one-inch wide, two-inch-deep stab wound in her hip. She was taken to the PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center for treatment.
Based on their interviews, police concluded that Luck was related to both victims, and that he showed up at the house intoxicated, looking for his girlfriend after they’d had an argument. He allegedly stabbed Massy in the hip, and the teenager got injured at the same time. Police found a bloody kitchen knife with a 6-inch blade lying on the ground.
Luck now faces multiple assault charges in Cowlitz County Superior Court.
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