Courtesy photo/Volusia Branch Jail mug. Derek Wikso, 22, of New Smyrna Beach, was arrested Saturday on a felony charge of aggravated battery after allegedly stabbing 34-year-old Dustin Hewitt during an argument over a cell phone. Wikso was released on $5,000 bail the next day and Hewitt has since been released from Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach for a stab wound to his torso.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Dustin Hewitt never saw the knife that was plunged into his torso during an argument he had with his accused attacker over a cell phone, according to a police charging affidavit obtained by NSBNEWS.net.
But police officers saw the knife, described as a chrome-handle buck knife held by Derek Wikso.
Police officer Dominic Ellis noted in his report that he drew his own service weapon upon seeing the accused and hearing the victim and others shouting to him, "He's over there with the knife!"
Wikso, 22, dropped the weapon and was arrested without further incident.
The 34-year-old victim told police he didn't know he had been stabbed until he looked down at his injury because he didn't see the knife in advance.
A friend of the victim told police they had gone to Wikso's residence on Jacaranda Cay Court off the North Causeway to retrieve a cell phone that hadn't been returned to another friend.
Though he had been stabbed, the victim remained standing, showing responding police a 3- to 4-inch laceration in his upper left torso and that he felt a burning sensation there. He was immediately transported by EVAC ambulance to Halifax Medical Center with what was considered a non-life threatening injury.