Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Luvmarr D’layy Hamby, 20, was arrested early this morning for allegedly stabbing a man and choking a woman at GRACE Marketplace.

A few minutes after midnight, Gainesville Police Department officers responded to GRACE Marketplace (3055 NE 28th Drive), where they found a man on the ground, covered in blood. The victim said he had been stabbed and felt “blood going into his lungs.” After he was transported to the hospital, the victim reportedly said he had been defending a friend who was fighting with Hamby, and when he intervened, Hamby stabbed him. The victim reportedly had wounds on his chest, shoulder, and arm.

Officers reportedly found a knife at the scene, and a witness reportedly said he had seen Hamby with the knife.

A woman told an officer that about an hour before the stabbing incident, Hamby choked her, impeding her breathing; the officer reported that she had significant bruising on her neck. The woman said she had known Hamby for about two days and had been sexually intimate with him.

Post Miranda, Hamby reportedly said he didn’t have much to say and then declined to say anything else.

Hamby, whose address is listed as GRACE Marketplace, has no local criminal history. Judge Sheree Lancaster ordered him held without bail, pending a hearing on a motion from the State Attorney’s office to hold him without bail until trial.

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