- November 8, 2024
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An 18-year-old man called the Sheriff’s Office after midnight Aug. 29 saying that he’d been stabbed, and the ordeal wasn’t over: The knife was still lodged in his back, and he thought the young man who’d stabbed him was still in his house.
The victim, Jonathan Cerdeira, called the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office at about 12:20 a.m., retreating into a bathroom of his home at 17 Felshire Lane in Palm Coast to protect himself from more attacks, according to a Sheriff's Office case report.
He described the alleged attacker to 911 dispatchers, and a Sheriff’s Office commander's report said that he’d said the attacker was a friend.
From inside the bathroom, Cerdeira gave dispatchers updates: He thought the attacker was still in the house, and he heard what he thought was the sound of someone jumping into the pool.
A Sheriff’s Office corporal and a deputy who arrived at the house knocked on the door and saw a shirtless man walk to the door. They told him to show his hands. A case report on the incident redacts his name.
“The male stepped outside the front door and was covered in blood on his entire chest area, neck, side of his face, and hands,” a deputy wrote in a case report. “The male also appeared to be soaking wet."
Deputies ordered him to the ground. The deputies didn’t know whether the blood was his own, or Cerdeira's.
As other deputies arrived, one deputy entered the house to find Cerdeira — they could hear him yelling — and another deputy rolled over the blood-covered man who’d answered the door. That deputy saw “what appeared to be some sort of puncture wound to the middle of his throat which was oozing blood,” and a long laceration on his hand.
The man “uttered several times that he wanted to kill himself,” a deputy wrote in the report. The case report does not specify how he got his injuries, and parts of it are redacted because the investigation is ongoing.
Cerdeira told deputies that both men had been drinking.
Paramedics and firefighters came to the scene and aided both men before taking them both to Halifax Hospital in Daytona Beach.
The case has been classified as an aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, but no charges had been forwarded to the State Attorney's Office in connection with the case as of the afternoon of Aug. 29.
