Home invasion follows stabbing

As of late this afternoon, nobody had been jailed, and Wasco County Sheriff’s Sgt. Scott Williams said two people, the stabbing suspect and the stabbing victim, were both at the hospital.

Williams said a 911 call reporting the burglary at 18th and Morton came in to police dispatchers first. Then, as law officers were responding to that call, the hospital called to report a stabbing victim had showed up at the hospital.

“We linked the two together,” Williams said. He said only that the man who entered the Kirchhofer house was “involved” in the stabbing.

Williams was at the district attorney’s office this afternoon helping to prepare a search warrant in connection with the stabbing. More information will be released tomorrow.

Williams said he didn’t know what led up to the stabbing or when precisely it occurred. He didn’t know precisely where it occurred either, though Kirchhofer said it happened in a “structure” near his home. Williams said a shop was located nearby.

Kirchhofer posted on Facebook early this afternoon that it was his home that was invaded by a man who entered through their exterior bedroom door.

He said he had just gone to work and his wife Melissa happened to be home sick. Otherwise, since Monday was a day off school, “the kids would have been home alone,” he wrote.

He said his wife “was able to get the kids up our stairs.”

“Yelling for the man to get out of the house, the man decided to instead sit down in our first floor furniture,” Kirchhofer wrote. “He then proceeded to the kitchen to grab a large kitchen knife and head up the stairs.

“Melissa locked herself and kids into a bedroom and called 911. Within 3-4 minutes law enforcement was on the scene. No one was injured, the man is in custody and the family does feel blessed. If Melissa was not here it could have gotten very ugly.”

He added, “Precautions are being taken to have a lot more control and force if this situation repeats itself. But it will be a long process for the family to recover from this trauma.”

The sheriff’s office plans to issue a press release tomorrow.