NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A 55-year-old woman is in critical condition after being stabbed in the neck and back Tuesday night, and her son has been taken into custody.
 
The incident happened Tuesday, Feb. 28, shortly after 9:30 p.m. at a home on La Vista Drive.
 
North Little Rock Police were called to a home in the 300 block of East Scenic in regards to an injured woman on the porch. When police arrived, they saw an unresponsive woman lying on the porch with stab wounds to her neck and back and a “large amount of blood” on her clothes.
 
An ambulance arrived and began treating the woman.
 
Police then spoke with a man named Cedric Donley who lives at the home on East Scenic. Donley told police he heard a woman yelling for help and he saw her lying on the porch. Donley said he wasn’t sure where the woman lived, but he saw a car door was open at a house across the street (the La Vista Drive residence). 
 
Police then walked over to the La Vista Drive house and saw Tau Cumberbatch, 20, later identified as the victim’s son, walking out of the carport with his hands up.
 
Cumberbatch reportedly yelled to police, “She poured water on me!” and yelled for police to shoot him in the face.
 
Police then arrested Cumberbatch, who they noted was “soaked in water” and had a cut on one of his wrists. 
 
When police searched the La Vista Drive house, they said they saw a large amount of blood on the floor of the carport, the kitchen floor, the kitchen walls, and on other parts of the floors and walls throughout the home. 
 
Police said both the kitchen sink and the shower were left running. 
 
They also found a knife on the kitchen floor with blood on it. 
 
Police then went back to the East Scenic house to talk with Cedric Donley and a woman named Ashley Johnson. They told police what Donley had said before: they heard a woman yelling, looked outside and saw her laying on their porch. They tried to help the woman before police arrived.
 
The woman was taken to the hospital and is said to be in critical condition.
 
Her son was also hospitalized, but has since been released and taken to the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office.