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Last updated on Wednesday, October 17, 2012
(WASHINGTON) - Police are looking for 30-year-old Daniel Westfall, of Washington, in connection with a stabbing of two teenage girls.
Washington Police detectives say Westfall is a person of interested and police want to question him.
According to police, two girls were walking to a home in the 900 block of East Walnut Street after attending Haunted High on Oct. 6th when a man began following them. The man knew one of the girls and stopped to talk to her. Police say the girl told the man she didn't want him to talk to her and the girl that lived at the home asked him to get off the property.
That is when the man brandished a knife and began struggling with one of the girls and cut her on the neck.
The other girl tried to help and she was cut on the face.
The man then fled.
Police were called around 11:30 p.m. reporting someone was bleeding in the front yard of the home.
Both girls were taken to the Daviess Community Hospital and then to St. Mary's Medical Center in Evansville. Both were treated and released.
Westfall is also a registered sex offender from a 2007 arrest in Greene County for seven felony counts of child molesting in Daviess County.
He was sentenced in 2009 to a count of Class B felony child molesting, but has been in and out of court in connection with the conditions of his probation, according to court records.
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