Pool game aftermath leads to double stabbing (Shakopee Valley News)

Pool game aftermath leads to double stabbing
October 20, 2010 - 6:23pm.
By Shannon Fiecke, Staff Writer

After blowing his money playing pool at a Shakopee bar two Sundays ago, an out-of-town roofer went back to his motel and started a fight that ended with two men being stabbed, according to the Scott County Sheriff’s Office.

One man, 20-year-old Edwardo Chavez-Hernandez, was wounded in his abdomen, chest and arms. He was taken by ambulance to St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Shakopee, where emergency room staff stitched the wounds on his arms.

Another man, 24-year-old Hugo Sican from Fort Worth, Texas, was also cut, but did not require treatment.

The fight was allegedly started by Raymundo Rojas, 28, who was arrested and charged, and his brother, who fled the scene before police arrived.

According to the criminal complaint filed in Scott County District Court:

Raymundo Rojas and his brother, who were staying at the Hillview Motel near Highways 41 and 169, went with four men on Oct. 10 to a bar in Shakopee. Raymundo's brother lost playing pool and became angry.

After returning to the Hillview Motel, the Rojas brothers started a fight, witnesses said.

Raymundo Rojas waived a roofing knife back and forth, threatening other men, witnesses said. Sican told officers he was cut by Raymundo Rojas with a blue roofing knife.

Chavez-Hernandez told authorities he was stabbed after he saw people fighting outside his motel room and ran out to break up the fight.

He said the Rojas brothers attacked him and one used a knife to stab and slash him, but he did not know which one.

Raymundo Rojas, who reported a Fort Worth, Texas address, was charged in Scott County District Court with two counts of second-degree assault. An immigration hold has been placed on him.

Chavez-Hernandez, the stabbing victim who required medical attention, told deputies he was also from Texas but could not recall his address.