A West Palm Beach man was arrested Wednesday in connection with a stabbing that took place last year, according to an arrest report.
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The victim was allegedly stabbed multiple times May 3, 2015 after he answered an ad on Backpage.com and set up a rendezvous with a woman at her apartment on the 2000 block of N. Congress Avenue, the report said.
The woman turned out to be a man named Gregory Ryan Russell. Russell’s live-in boyfriend, Bobby C. Stubbs, allegedly confronted the victim and pistol-whipped and stabbed him several times, the report said. The victim told West Palm Beach police he was robbed of his iPhone and $100 during the attack before he was able to escape.
Stubbs, 28, is facing charges of robbery with a firearm and aggravated battery with a firearm and is being held in the Palm Beach County Jail without bond.
Russell, 24, was arrested last July and sentenced to three years probation Monday after being convicted of attempted robbery.
Russell told detectives he and Stubbs decided to set up the victim before his arrival, the report said. After
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the “date” was completed, Russell said Stubbs emerged from hiding and hit the victim in the head with a pistol.
“I’m going to shoot you,” Stubbs told the victim, according to the report.
The 53-year-old victim was disarmed of a pocket knife and was stabbed with it several times by Stubbs, Russell said. The victim drove himself to West Palm Hospital. Aside from the stab wounds, the man also needed several staples in his head to close a laceration, possibly incurred when he was hit by the pistol.
