Bossier City Police arrested a man Tuesday night following a stabbing at the Homewood Courtyard Apartments in the 700 block of Wanda Street. Officers arrested 60-year-old Herman Allen Levy of Bossier City on a charge of aggravated battery for stabbing 53-year-old Charles Ray Alexander with a knife inside Alexander's apartment.

Police were called to the scene at approximately 5 p.m. Tuesday and made contact with Levy who was standing outside the apartment. Upon entering the apartment, officers found Alexander with cuts to his neck and arm. Bossier City Fire Department personnel took Alexander to LSU Hospital in Shreveport with what were believed to be non-life threatening wounds.

Levy was taken into custody and subsequently arrested for the stabbing. Levy was booked into the Bossier City Jail and later transferred to the Bossier Parish Maximum Security Facility. In the course of the investigation police learned Levy had just moved in with Alexander hours before the stabbing. The motive for the stabbing remains unknown.

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Herman Allen Levy