Church Hill police: Wife stabs husband in chest, claims he was "worshipping the NASCAR race"

[The Straight Story]

CHURCH HILL, TN (WJHL) -

A Church Hill woman allegedly crashed her car into a church and then stabbed her husband in the chest after telling him, “The devil is in me,” according to a police news release.

Steven Hamman told Church Hill police just before 10 p.m. Sunday that his wife Stephanie Hamman drove her car through the front doors of Providence Church. He went in the building to check on her after she called him from the church and found her lying in front of the altar. She then stabbed him with a large kitchen knife, according to the release.

He pulled the knife from his chest, returned to his apartment at The Landings, 230 Silver Lake Road, which is across the street from the church, and waited on police and emergency workers to arrive.

Stephanie Hamman was found by police around 20 minutes later at Holston Valley Medical Center in Kingsport. She was read her rights by Church Hill Police Officer Dustin Dean.

http://www.wate.com/story/24995708/church-hill-police-wife-stabs-husband-in-chest-claims-he-was-worshipping-the-nascar-race

[Kelvin Mace]

1. OK, little first aid tip

Leave knives where they are, no matter how much they hurt. Allow trained professionals to decide when to remove them.

[Kelvin Mace]

2. OK, having read the story

I am guessing she was POed at her husband and was looking to kill him and get off by claiming she was high on pot, and that the devil (marijuana) made her do it.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. She wouldn't have done it in the church, if he was her target

Someone else could have got to her first. Driving a car into a church that doesn't contain your target is not the way to start a murder.

[Kelvin Mace]

5. I begin to wonder if the whole thing was staged

I would love to read the medical report on his wound.

I've seen a stab wound or two in my day, and pulling the knife out is always a bad idea with bad consequences unless you are lucky or the wound is very superficial.

[Fumesucker]

3. He should have been worshiping the NFL as God intended

That's what you get for worshiping a false prophet.

[jsr]

6. "He pulled the knife from his chest"

Just like in the movies.