WINNSBORO – Following a brief manhunt last week, the Winnsboro Department of Public Safety arrested Quinton Martez Adams, charging him with assault after officers say he stabbed another man in the face multiple times.
The incident occurred on June 5 in the parking lot of Cuz’s Corner convenience store on S. Congress Street in Winnsboro. Officers responded to MUSC Fairfield after the victim transported himself there.
According to the incident report, Adams walked over to a car occupied a driver – a man Adams knew – and two passengers. After a brief verbal exchange, Adams went behind a dumpster, grabbed an object, returned to the victim’s car and began to strike the victim in the face multiple times according to the report. A doctor in the MUSC emergency room stated that the wounds appeared to be stab wounds, the report stated.
On June 6, officers, with assistance from a K-9 unit, tracked Adams through several streets in the Mill Village, apprehending him as he walked south on 321 by-pass.
Adams was transported to the Fairfield County Detention Center, charged with Assault/Assault and Battery of a high and aggravated nature. He was released on a $10,000 surety bond.
