Crime

Phenix City police charge woman in weekend homicide

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Phenix City police have charged a suspect in a man’s fatal stabbing Sunday at the L.P. Stough Apartments.

Officers called at 4:37 a.m. to the complex at 101 10th Ave. S. found 47-year-old Mendel King with stab wounds, police said. He died at the scene.

Investigators charged Joanne Paige, 46, of Phenix City, with murder in King’s assault, authorities said in a news release Monday.

No further details were immediately available.

Tim Chitwood
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Tim Chitwood is from Seale, Alabama, and started as a police beat reporter with the Ledger-Enquirer in 1982. He since has covered Columbus’ serial killings and other homicides, following some from the scene of the crime to trial verdicts and ensuing appeals. He also has been a Ledger-Enquirer humor columnist since 1987. He’s a graduate of Auburn University, and started out working for the weekly Phenix Citizen in Phenix City, Ala.
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