INDIANAPOLIS — One woman is in critical condition after being stabbed Saturday evening in Broad Ripple.
Around 6:15 p.m. on March 16, IMPD officers responded an apartment complex in the 900 block of East 64th Street, near North College and Broad Ripple avenues, on a report of a person stabbed.
When officers arrived, they found a woman who had been stabbed and was in critical condition. She was taken to a local hospital, according to IMPD.
According to court documents, an IMPD officer located the suspect, later identified as 34-year-old Taniqwa Heard, of Indianapolis, getting out of a porta-potty near the apartment complex.
Shortly after Heard was placed in handcuffs, she allegedly asked the officer, "What's going on, did she die?"
Court documents say another officer then found a steak knife with blood on it in Heard's bottom left pant leg.
When detectives spoke with Heard, she allegedly told them she stabbed the victim in self-defense after an argument. Heard allegedly said the victim tried to spray her with mace, so Heard said she grabbed a knife from the kitchen and stabbed the victim.
Detectives then asked Heard why she left the scene before police got there if she acted in self-defense, to which Heard allegedly became argumentative and belligerent.
The Marion County Prosecutor's Office charged Heard with attempted murder, aggravated battery, domestic battery by means of a deadly weapon and intimidation.
Heard had her initial court hearing Wednesday, March 20.