One dead after stabbing on East Sycamore

A Carbondale man is dead after a stabbing incident over the weekend.

Carbondale Police report that Traeshonne D. Blythe, 31, died Saturday, July 20 after having been taken to the hospital emergency room.

Police first received a report at 2:49 a.m. Saturday of a stabbing and a vehicle theft from the 500 block of East Sycamore Street. Officers learned the stabbing victim, Blythe, had already been taken to the emergency room in a personal vehicle.

The original reporting party told officers they received a gunshot wound during the altercation in which the stabbing and vehicle occurred. Police later determined that no one had sustained a gunshot wound.

The involved parties are all known acquaintances to each other, and authorities have not released their names.

Man arrested after report of shots fired

Carbondale Police officers responded at 1:10 p.m. July 20 to the 700 block of South Lewis Lane regarding reports of a disturbance and shots fired.

Officers located two individuals with injuries that were determined to have been caused by a physical fight among acquaintances over a personal disagreement. Those individuals received medical treatment and were released. Officers learned suspects fired shots during the fight, but they didn't initially locate any victims with gunshot wounds.

The investigation led officers to two individuals in a vehicle at the same location who had been involved in the disturbance and were alleged to have fired a gun. Officers identified one of the suspects as Manuel Cass, 36, of Carbondale. A loaded firearm was located in the vehicle the men occupied, and controlled substances were also discovered in Cass' possession and inside the vehicle. Officers took both men into custody without incident.

In the course of the investigation, a female arrived at a local hospital with a reported gunshot wound that she reported receiving during the incident officers were investigating. She was treated for her injury and was released from the hospital.

Cass was charged with aggravated battery with a firearm, aggravated discharge of a firearm and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. Cass was taken to the Jackson County Jail.