GLENDALE, AZ — An arrest has been made in connection to a stabbing last month at Murphy Park in Glendale.
At about 4:30 a.m. on June 1, Glendale police were called to the park near 59th and Glendale avenues for a reported stabbing.
During an investigation, police say the suspect had a 12" butcher knife and confronted a woman. He then stabbed her in the leg before he walked away from the area.
Police released surveillance video of the man walking through the park. Scottsdale Police Department recognized the man as someone who was recently arrested for a sexual assault in their city.
He has been identified as 47-year-old James Morris. Details about the Scottsdale case haven't been released.
The woman who was stabbed is expected to be okay.
Morris was arrested and booked into jail for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
