Man arrested for Kirkwood stabbing

A Bloomington man was arrested after stabbing a man on Kirkwood Avenue early Saturday morning.\nBloomington Police Department Officer Cody Decker responded to a call from someone who said his friend had been stabbed, said Sgt. Daniel Carnes. reading from a police report. The caller waved down Decker at the intersection of North Lincoln Street and East Kirkwood Avenue and told Decker that a man wearing a gray long-sleeve sweat shirt with a gray stripe had just stabbed his friend.\nDecker began looking for the subject in the 200 block of East Kirkwood Avenue. He found a man who fit the description and then located a sweat shirt and two knives near the subject. The caller and the victim were both able to positively identify the subject.\nThe subject was later identified as David Oakley, 29. The victim and the complainant told Decker they were walking in the 200 block of East Kirkwood Avenue when Oakley began exchanging words with them from across the street. Oakley then ran across the street and “got in the victim’s face,” Sgt. Carnes said. The victim told Oakley that the comments that originally started the argument had come from other people in the street. Oakley began to walk away when another person made comments to him, which Oakley again thought came from the victim. Oakley then stabbed the victim in the right hand and fled the scene, Carnes said.\nThe victim was treated at Bloomington Hospital. Oakley was arrested for battery with a deadly weapon, a Class C felony.