Trexlertown Stabbing Case Heads to County Court

Demar Campbell, a 28-year-old Allentown resident, will face charges in Lehigh County Court in connection with a Feb. 8 stabbing in Trexlertown.

District Judge Jacob Hammond, in a preliminary hearing Friday, forwarded charges of aggravated assault, simple assault, harassment, possession of an instrument of crime and other charges, according to online court records.

Upper Macungie Police were dispatched to 1127 Trexlertown Road on a report of a man and woman arguing in the street near a car on the morning of Feb. 8 at approximately 3:38 a.m.

When they arrived, they found Campbell, of 1327 Chew St., and Anesha Byron, 35, sitting in a running 2006 Mercury Mountaineer. Byron was crying. She had been stabbed in the abdomen, police said.

According to the arrest affidavit, Byron told police the two had been arguing because she wanted Campbell to take her home and he refused. They had pulled over in the car, police said, and Campbell stabbed Byron with a folding knife. Police said they found the knife in the arm rest of the driver's side door.

When asked what started the fight, Campbell told police that the two had been at a club and that he had danced with another woman, according to the arrest affidavit.

Campbell remains in Lehigh County Prison in lieu of $40,000 bail.