Webb City man charged after stabbing at family gathering

The Jasper County Prosecuting Attorney's office filed second degree domestic assault and armed criminal action charges against a Webb City man after he allegedly stabbed his cousin in the parking lot at the Gene Taylor Community Building in Sarcoxie.

Ferdinan Billy (DOB 1984) pleaded not guilty during a video arraignment today in Jasper County Circuit Court.

Billy is being held in the Jasper County Detention Center on aa $50,000 cash-only bond. A bond review hearing is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.

The stabbing took place just after midnight Saturday with the Sarcoxie Police Department,  Jasper County Sheriff's Office and Missouri State Highway Patrol responding.

From the probable cause hearing:

On arrival, we observed a disturbance occurring in the parking lot, with an estimated 40-50 persons in a heightened emotional state.

Confidential Victim (CV) was lying face down screaming loudly in pain on the north side surrounded by family members, with an apparent steak/kitchen knife protruding from his left lower back, drifting in and out of consciousness.

When exiting our patrol vehicles, several bystanders pointed out the location of Ferdinan Billy near the south side of the parking lot.

Billy was being restrained against a vehicle by multiple male bystanders. Billy was detained without incident and I placed him in the rear of my patrol vehicle.

Multiple witnesses on scene stated Billy was intoxicated and became upset from an incident inside the building during their family party. Witnesses stated Billy rushed outside the building toward the middle of the parking lot waving a knife then stabbed CV with the knife where CV stumbled north and collapsed onto the pavement.

CVV was transported emergent by EMS to a Springfield hospital sustaining injury to his left flank from the knife.

According to witnesses on scene, Billy is a cousin to CV.