Wilson Deputy Out of Hospital After Being Stabbed
A Wilson County deputy who was stabbed while on duty is out of the hospital and recovering at home.
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Authorities said James Edward Smith, 42, came out of surgery Saturday evening and left Wilson Medical Center on Sunday.
Investigators said Smith was responding to a domestic violence call Saturday at a house at 5200 White Oak Loop Road. When he entered the house, he was stabbed in the left side of his rib cage by 35-year-old Jimmy Allen Pennell, authorities said.
Smith's stab wound was 8 inches long and 1½ inches deep, authorities said.
The deputy has been with the Wilson County Sheriff's Office for 12 years, Maj. J.H. Farmer said.
Deputies arrested Pennell and charged him with first-degree attempted murder, malicious assault in secret, assault with a deadly weapon on a government official with the intent to kill, resisting a public officer and assault on a female in connection with the original domestic violence complaint to which Smith responded.
Pennell was being held Monday on a $3 million bond.
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