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Police in Beaumont have arrested a 55-year-old Beaumont man for aggravated assault after he allegedly stabbed his neighbor Saturday.

According to a news release from BPD, officers responded to 3255 Elmira in reference to an aggravated assault at 4:26 p.m. Investigating officers determined that Alvin Hicks, 55, used a knife to stab and slash his 50-year-old neighbor. The two men were reportedly involved in an ongoing disturbance that turned physical. Hicks went to the kitchen to get a knife, then stabbed the neighbor in the torso and slashed him across the neck.

UPDATE: Not guilty: Jury accepts self-defense rationale in Mother’s Day stabbing

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A Beaumont woman police and prosecutors say murdered her fiancé over a bad Mother’s Day gift in 2012 was in court this week claiming she acted in self-defense rather than out of malice.

A family disturbance between two Beaumont brothers turned deadly when one of the sibling's stabbed the other with a kitchen knife March 17, reports the Beaumont Police Department. 

In a pretrial hearing on the morning of Friday, October 2, 2015, Clinton Johnson pleaded guilty to a 3rd degree felony of causing serious bodily injury to an animal with a deadly weapon. Johnson made headlines recently for stabbing a dog twice with a blade that was attached to a portion of PVC pipe. He slashed the dog's neck and penetrated the dog's right hip down through the leg.