Cops: Man stabbed girlfriend 7 times

BRIDGEPORT — A local man was being held in lieu of $1 million bond after police said he stabbed his girlfriend more than half a dozen times and left her laying in a pool of blood.

Tavon Phills, 26, of Parrott Avenue, was charged with attempted murder and first-degree assault.

“The victim was covered in so much blood police couldn’t tell how many times she had been stabbed,” Senior Assistant State’s Attorney Tiffany Lockshier said during Phills arraignment on Monday afternoon. “She is in critical condition.”

Phills watched the hearing via video from the courthouse lockup, his jacket hood pulled over his face.

Superior Court Judge Peter McShane agreed the allegations were “extremely serious,” and set Phills bond at $1 million. He continued the case to March 23.

According to the report of Detective Michael Cantrell, early Saturday a call came into emergency dispatch from a 26-year-old woman that her boyfriend had tried to kill her.

“I’m bleeding from everywhere,” the report states the woman told 911.

When officers got into the apartment building, they found blood on the floor and along the hallway to the woman’s apartment, the report continues. Officers found the apartment in disarray and there was blood on the floors, walls and furniture.

The report states that after the woman was found covered in blood, she was taken to St. Vincent’s Medical Center in extremely critical condition. The report states she had seven stab wounds.

Police subsequently learned that Phills had checked himself into the psychiatric ward at St. Vincent’s Medical Center.

He was arrested on Sunday after being discharged from the hospital, police said. The report states that officers later recovered a bloody knife from the home of Phills’ mother.