{"id":132406,"date":"2020-07-02T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=132406"},"modified":"2020-07-02T13:54:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T18:54:36","slug":"man-arrested-for-washington-st-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2020\/07\/02\/man-arrested-for-washington-st-stabbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Man indicted for Washington St. stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An Illinois man has been indicted by the Van Wert County grand jury for a stabbing incident that occurred early the morning of June 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David Crawford Hecox, 23, of Pittsfield, Illinois, was indicted on a charge of attempted murder, a felony of the first degree. He will likely be arraigned sometime next week in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Joshua-Dangler-mugshot-6-2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-132407\" width=\"168\" height=\"239\"\/><figcaption>David Hecox<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers from the Van Wert Police Department had been called to 422 N Washington St. at 3 a.m. June 23 on a report that Joshua Dangler, 34, was stabbed in the neck. Officers arrived on scene and observed a laceration to the left side of Dangler\u2019s neck and to his right hand. Dangler was then transported by Van Wert Fire Department EMS to Van Wert Health for treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Witnesses advised Hecox came to the residence after leaving a local bar and allegedly started to use racial epithets, so he was told to leave. Dangler went outside with Hecox and returned bleeding, advising he was stabbed in the neck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert Police Department investigated the incident and discovered Hecox worked for a wind turbine company as a road flagger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert County Sheriff\u2019s Office then accompanied Van Wert police detectives and located Hecox working at a job site. He reportedly had a utility knife and blood on his clothing when officers located him, while the vehicle he drove also contained blood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hecox was taken into custody and initially charged with felonious assault, a felony of the second degree. He is currently incarcerated in the Van Wert County Correctional Facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent An Illinois man has been indicted by the Van Wert County grand jury for a stabbing incident that occurred early the morning of June 23. David Crawford Hecox, 23, of Pittsfield, Illinois, was indicted on a charge of attempted murder, a felony of the first degree. He will likely be arraigned sometime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 15:22:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}