An Indianapolis Star columnist was stabbed 10 to 12 times in the back by a girlfriend’s ex-husband, police said Monday.
Lynn Ford, 42, was stabbed Sunday evening, shortly after getting out of his car at his northeast side apartment complex, said Lt. Dennis May of the Marion County sheriff’s department.
Officers arrested Scottie Randolph Edwards, 54, of Indianapolis Monday afternoon on a charge of attempted murder, May said.
Ford was listed in serious condition Monday at Methodist Hospital. His injuries include a collapsed lung.
May said Ford had never been threatened by Edwards before. “Mr. Ford doesn’t even know what Mr. Edwards looks like,” May said.
One of Ford’s neighbors gave investigators the license plate number of an unfamiliar car seen in recent days at the apartment complex, May said. That information led them to Edwards, who has denied stabbing Ford, May said.
In the attack, Ford’s assailant knocked him to the ground and began stabbing him. After the attacker fled, Ford made it inside an apartment building, where he collapsed. Nothing was taken from him.
Ford writes a column that appears alternate Saturdays on the front of The Star’s city/state news section. Ford also is the newspaper’s assistant arts and entertainment editor and has been a reporter and editor at The Star for 16 years.
Ford was declining interviews.
