A man accused of stabbing someone in June was arrested on Friday after allegedly leading deputies on a vehicle chase in Morgantown.
Timothy I. Brooks Jr., 30, of Morgantown, is charged with malicious wounding and fleeing from an officer in a vehicle with reckless indifference.
Deputies were dispatched after a “wanted man” was reported sitting parked in a black Ford Escape outside Mapleshire nursing home on Mon Health Drive on Friday, according to a criminal complaint.
The caller identified Brooks and said he had a warrant for malicious wounding, the complaint said. Deputies confirmed Brooks had an active felony warrant.
As the deputies pulled in, a black Ford Escape was exiting onto Mon Health Drive. The vehicle slowed as deputies approached then “rapidly” accelerated down Mon Health Drive and turned left onto Maple Drive, the complaint said.
A deputy activated his cruiser’s lights and sirens and chased the Escape down Maple Drive at 70-80 mph while passing cars in the oncoming lane and almost causing a wreck, the complaint said.
At one point, the driver appeared to lose control of the vehicle as it approached the intersection of 705 and Suncrest Towne Centre, the complaint said.
The vehicle then turned left onto West Virginia University’s property off Maple Drive and pulled into a gravel parking lot and the driver jumped out of vehicle.
Brooks then tried to jump a fence but ran along the fence line until a deputy caught him, the complaint said.
There was also a passenger in the vehicle who deputies were unaware of and “whose safety was jeopardized by the arrestee’s dangerous and erratic flight,” the complaint said.
The June stabbing incident allegedly happened at a home on Glen Abby Lane, according to a criminal complaint.
The female victim said she was fighting with her boyfriend, Brooks, because he thought she was cheating on him, the complaint said. He pulled a knife on her while she was holding their 2-month-old son and held it to her throat until she put the baby down and tried to defend herself.
At some point, she was cut on the left side of her face, left forearm and a finger on her right hand, the complaint said. She locked herself in the baby’s room and climbed out the second floor window to escape as Brooks was kicking the door in.
Brooks in in North Central Regional Jail in lieu of $75,000 bond.
