Grady (Courtesy El Paso Police Department)A Northeast El Paso man was arrested early Saturday after he allegedly lunged from his motorized wheelchair and stabbed another man.
El Paso police spokesman Darrel Petry said that James Grady, 52, of the 8700 block of Gateway North, visited another man, Billy Cheeks, in a neighboring apartment at about 6:50 a.m. Saturday.At the apartment’s front door, Grady got up from his wheelchair, entered the apartment through the partially opened front door and allegedly stabbed Cheeks in the upper left side of his chest with a throwing knife, police said.
Petry said Cheeks attempted to defend himself by hitting Grady with a sword, denting it. Grady fled from the apartment in his wheelchair, Petry said, but was later found at the intersection of Hercules and Mercury.
Cheeks was taken to Beaumont Army Medical Center for treatment, while Grady was taken to Thomason Hospital. Grady was later booked into the El Paso County Jail on attempted murder charges.
Some stories just cry to be explained more in depth. Let me try…
Two Texas single men, Jim Grady and Billy Cheeks had a feud going over the sale of 4 pickup truck rims. Before breakfast after a long night of Friday night drinking 300 pound Mr. Grady decided it would be a good time to wheel on over to Billy Cheeks’ apartment, force open the door, jump out of wheel chair and pitch a throwing knife at Billy. Stabbed in the chest, Cheeky grabbed his sword and hit Grady so hard in the face with it, the sword was dented. Bleeding profusely from the head, Grady decided to make a run for the Mexican border only several miles away. He made his escape more than half a mile in his motorized wheel chair before police caught up to him and took him to jail.
That is silly enough, but what are you and I most concerned with at the moment? Something we may never know. Was Billy Cheeks wearing a sword at the time or did he just happen to have one laying around on the coffee table or something? And it got dented. What was the sword made of? Don’t you want so see that sword? I know I do…
Oh, and what is it about people whose necks are bigger around than their heads?