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Woman also stabbed
SOUTHINGTON
A 28-year-old West Farmington man was expected to be charged today in the fatal stabbing of a Southington man Saturday and the serious wounding of a woman.
In custody is Thomas J. Starr, who was captured without a struggle in a wooded area behind the home at 5435 state Route 305 at Phalanx Mills Herner Road where the stabbings occurred, Maj. Thomas Stewart of the Trumbull County Sheriff’s Office.
Stewart said night goggles and K-9 units from Geauga and Portage were used to locate the suspect.
Each victim — the male, 51, and the woman, Lisa Frye, 46 — was stabbed once in the neck. The name of the male victim was not released Sunday. Frye was life-flighted to Cleveland Metro Hospital where she is in satisfactory condition, Stewart said.
It was not known what the suspect’s relationship to the victims is, nor what the motive for the stabbings is.
Passers-by found the woman lying in the road about 100 yards from the home and called the Ohio State Highway Patrol, possibly thinking she had been hit by a car. The man was found dead on the front porch of the house, Stewart said.
There was no one else in the home at the time of the stabbings that occurred about 10:10 p.m. Saturday, and no other injuries were reported.