Police: Drug Payment Disagreement Led To Fatal Stabbing
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - A man from Chippewa has been charged in the stabbing death of a woman at the Mulberry Lane apartments in New Brighton.
Police say it started after the victim claimed he owed her money for crack cocaine.
According to the criminal complaint, 52-year-old Kevin Hooks said he went to Deborah Hill-Payne's apartment to pay for crack cocaine.
Hooks said they got into an argument because she wanted more money. He claims she came after him with a steak knife and he tried to grab it and cut his hand.
Police said during a fight, Hooks grabbed her hand that had the knife and stabbed her.
"A lady and a gentleman got into an altercation with knives. The man came running and hit this alley and the lady was lying up in the hallway dead with a knife in her hand," Anthony Moore, a neighbor, said.
The victim was found bleeding and unresponsive. Her apartment was in disarray from the altercation
"When I found out what happened, it hurt me to my heart. Somebody going out like that and her brother just died a week or two weeks ago. Now, she's gone," Wanda Brown said.
Neighbors heard loud noises from the fight and called 911.
Officers ran into Hooks in the police station parking lot with a severe laceration on his hand. He was taken to the hospital.
Hooks later confessed to the stabbing death of Hill-Payne.
He's charged with criminal homicide and remains locked up in the Beaver County Jail.
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