(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Perkins man, who reportedly threw a kitten from his house that hit hard on the ground, has been charged with stabbing a man during an altercation between his own girlfriend and the victim’s girlfriend.
Travis Ray Bain, 27, has been jailed on $50,000 bail pending an Oct. 6 court appearance on charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and public intoxication, court records show.
Bain admitted to stabbing the man, whom he claimed he was scared of and had assaulted him 90 minutes earlier, Perkins Police Officer Kyle Howard alleged in an affidavit.
“I asked why he didn’t call the police and Travis said it was ‘smoothed over,"” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
“Travis admitted to throwing the knife after the stabbing. Travis admitted that he was drinking vodka before the incident,” the affidavit alleged.
The Perkins officer had been dispatched shortly before 8 p.m. on Sept. 14 to the 400 block of N.W. First Street on a report of a stabbing, the affidavit said.
When the officer arrived, Bain was in the roadway with his arms raised in the air, the affidavit said.
“Several people were outside and pointing at him yelling ‘He did it,"” the affidavit alleged.
While Perkins Police Officer George Farmer went to help the victim, Officer Howard asked Bain why he stabbed the man, the affidavit alleged.
Bain said that the victim’s girlfriend was attacking his own girlfriend on their porch, the affidavit alleged.
Bain said he walked out during the attack and saw the victim “approaching him in an aggressive manner so he stabbed him,” the affidavit alleged.
While Perkins First Responders were tending to the victim’s wounds, a witness said she thought Bain threw the knife in the 400 block of N.W. First Street, the affidavit alleged.
Four Perkins police officers and two Iowa tribal police officers searched the area for the knife — which was eventually found by Officer George Farmer, the affidavit said.
A witness said “Travis Bain threw out a kitten from his house and it struck hard on the ground. This upset all parties involved, but did not start a fight,” the affidavit alleged.
Then Bain’s girlfriend said that someone stole her phone, which escalated the matter and a fight began between the two women, the affidavit alleged.
When he was interviewed at the Stillwater Medical Center emergency room, the stabbing victim said that he did not want to file charges — that Bain was going through enough, the affidavit said.
The Perkins officer took another picture of the wound with a measuring tool that showed about a 2 cm cut of unknown depth because the victim said it was too painful to touch, the affidavit alleged.
In addition to the charges on which Bain has been ordered to appear in court on Oct. 6, Bain was already facing a charge of stealing a man’s cell phone from an unattended vehicle in Perkins on May 10, court records show. That misdemeanor case remains pending.***
