Wake County deputies arrest suspects after two stabbing attacks in Wendell
Deputies said two stabbings in eastern Wake County were unrelated, and arrests followed within hours. Both victims were taken to hospitals with serious injuries.
Wake County deputies arrested two men after separate stabbings in Wendell and near Raleigh left both victims seriously injured Wednesday. Sheriff Willie Rowe said the cases were not connected and that there was no indication of an ongoing threat to the public.
The first attack came just after 10 a.m. in the 6300 block of Old Mill Farm Drive near Wendell, a private road in a gated community off Robertson Pond Road. Deputies found a man with a stab wound and took him to a hospital with serious injuries. The Wake County Sheriff’s Office later announced the arrest of Earnhart Joyner III, 38, who was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. Court records reported by WRAL show Joyner is from Knightdale and was being held without bond. Deputies said the arrest was announced about two miles from the scene just after noon, after they had already alerted residents near Robertson Pond Road and Edgemont Road to call 911 if they saw suspicious activity.
The second stabbing happened about 2:30 p.m. in the 4200 block of Chandler Ridge Circle near Raleigh, roughly four and a half hours after the first call. Deputies found another man with an apparent stab wound and took him to a hospital with serious injuries. The Sheriff’s Office arrested Sy-Fee Nagi Murray Wilson, 23, and charged him with attempted first-degree murder. Deputies have not released the name of the second victim.
Rowe’s statement that the attacks were unrelated sharply narrowed the public-safety concern in a day that could have pointed to a wider pattern across eastern Wake County. Instead, investigators treated the cases as two separate violent crimes, with two arrests, two hospital transports and no sign of a continuing danger to nearby neighborhoods. The Wake County Sheriff’s Office is the primary law-enforcement agency for unincorporated parts of the county, and its public-information office coordinates media updates and records requests, which is how the two cases moved from emergency response to arrests so quickly.
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