Stabbing victim: Injury accidental

Investigators are still investigating the Sunday morning stabbing of a woman at her home southwest of Mayflower.

According to a Faulkner County Sheriff's Office incident report released Monday, both the victim and her husband have told investigators the stabbing was accidental.

A deputy responded to a 9-1-1 call at 99 Faulkner Meadows Road at about 7:30 a.m. Sunday to find 31-year-old Crystal Ann Fisher sitting in blood-soaked clothing and holding a cloth to a wound on her abdomen.

She told the deputy that she had been cutting up a cantaloupe earlier in the morning and had tripped over an electrical cord while still holding the knife, "causing it to stab deep into her abdomen," according to the report.

Her husband, 45-year-old Curtis D. Fisher, told investigators that he was asleep at the time of the incident and was awoken by his wife, who had the knife's handle sticking out of her. Curtis Fisher said he then called 9-1-1.

The woman was taken by Air Evac Lifeteam to Baptist Medical Center in Little Rock. Sgt. David Hall of the Faulkner County Sheriff's Office said Monday that she seemed to be recovering and that doctors have told him that the knife didn't seriously damage any organs.

Fisher's husband and three children were escorted Sunday morning to FCSO's Criminal Investigations Division for questioning. They were released later that day. The woman was questioned further at Baptist Medical Center.

Hall said investigators were still reviewing photographs and other evidence gathered from the scene to see if the evidence "checks out" with these testimonies.

(Staff writer Joe Lamb can be reached at 505-1238 or by E-mail at joe.lamb@thecabin.net. Send us your news at www.thecabin.net/submit.)