Asheville Police Department press release:
Asheville Police are searching for a man charged with stabbing two people yesterday morning in west Asheville which left one man dead.
Asheville Police responded around 7:06 a.m. on October 3rd to reports of a stabbing in the 200 block of Short Michigan Avenue. When officers arrived on scene, they located one man who had already succumbed to his injuries and another with knife wounds to his neck. The second victim was transported to Mission Hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Detectives and Forensic Technicians, working with the Buncombe County District Attorney’s Office, charged Raqwean Jarrel Savage (03/28/1997) with First Degree Murder and Assault with a Deadly Weapon with Intent to Kill Inflicting Serious Injury.
Officers and Detectives are actively searching for Savage, who is believed to be in the West Asheville area near Kentucky Avenue and State Street. He should be considered armed and extremely dangerous. If seen, do not approach him; call 911 immediately.
Savage is described as a black male, 27 years old, 5’11, 200 lbs. He has a tattoo on his upper right arm saying “EST 1997”, and a tattoo on his upper left arm of praying hands.
This is the 9th homicide investigated by the Asheville Police Department this year.
If you have any information about this incident or any other violent crime, please contact APD at (828) 252-1110. You can also send an anonymous tip using the TIP2APD smartphone application (search “Asheville PD” in your app store) or by texting TIP2APD to 847411.
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