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Davenport man stabbed Thursday arrested

A Davenport man awaiting sentencing in a Scott County burglary case was arrested for allegedly stabbing and seriously injuring another man during a fight Thursday, police said.

Brandon James Hawkins-Hill, 34, is charged in Scott County District Court with one count of malicious wounding causing serious injury. The charge is a class C misdemeanor punishable by 10 years in prison.







Brandon James Hawkins-Hill

Brandon James Hawkins-Hill


Hawkins-Hill is also charged with one count of assault while displaying a dangerous weapon; this is an aggravated misdemeanor punishable by two years in prison.

According to an arrest affidavit filed by Davenport Police Detective Evan Obert, police were dispatched to the 400 block of Main Street at 9:45 a.m. Thursday to investigate a report of one of them fighting with a knife.

Police teams arrived at the scene and identified the person who was stabbed twice.

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According to the statements, the victim had a collapsed lung and was bleeding profusely. The victim was taken to Genesis Medical Center East Campus in Davenport for treatment.

Hawkins-Hill was located by police with a knife that had blood on it.

During a post-Miranda interview, Hawkins-Hill admitted to officers that he fought with the victim, but added that he did not know where the knife came from during the fight.

Police said there was video of Hawkins-Hill stabbing the victim during the fight.

Hawkins-Hill was arrested Thursday and booked into the Scott County Jail.

During an initial hearing on the charges Friday in Scott County District Court, Judge Richard Wells scheduled a preliminary hearing in the case for Nov. 1.

Hawkins-Hill was being held in the Scott County Jail Sunday on a $10,000 cash-only bond set by Wells.

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In a separate case, Hawkins-Hill was arrested June 18 for breaking into an apartment in the 100 block of East 3rd Street and assaulting one of the occupants. He was initially charged with second-degree burglary, a Class C felony.

At an Aug. 12 hearing in Scott County District Court, Hawkins-Hill pleaded guilty to a third-degree burglary charge in connection with that case. The charge is a Class D felony punishable by five years in prison. He is scheduled to be sentenced in that case on November 14 in district court.

Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón stated that his office is reviewing the case of brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez, who killed their parents in 1989 and were sentenced to life in prison. At the first hearing in 1993, their lawyers argued that the siblings had been subjected to years of sexual abuse by their father, José Menendez, whose actions were authorized by their mother, Kitty. Prosecutors portrayed the brothers as cold-hearted and driven by greed, claiming their actions were driven by a desire to gain uncontrolled access to their parents’ $14 million estate. Their first trial was watched on television but ended in a reversal of the trial. At the second hearing, the judge limited testimony about Jose Menendez’s parentage and prohibited cameras from being brought into the courtroom. The judge also ruled that the “abuse excuse” could not be used as a defence; this gave jurors only the option of sentencing the brothers to life imprisonment or releasing them entirely. The brothers were convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. They are currently incarcerated at the Richard J. Donovan Prison in California. Following the recent release of Netflix’s ‘Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story’, interest in the case has intensified, resulting in Gascón receiving numerous calls to his office to discuss the case. “It is important to recognize that both men and women can be victims of sexual abuse… We have a moral and ethical obligation to review what is presented to us,” Gascón said in a statement. New evidence has since emerged to support the abuse allegations; A letter written by Erik when he was 17, detailing his father’s sexual abuse, was revealed in a book by journalist Robert Rand. A 2023 docuseries from Peacock detailed new sexual assault allegations against Hollywood executive José by a former member of the Puerto Rican boy band Menudo. The brothers’ lawyers claim that the understanding of sexual abuse has improved in 2024. Erik’s attorney in 1993, Leslie Abramson, noted that awareness of sexual assault against men was limited at the time. Kim Kardashian, who recently visited the brothers in prison, described them as “kind” and said, “At that time, resources were limited for victims of sexual abuse, especially boys.” 24 of José and Kitty’s family members called for resentencing, saying continued imprisonment serves no rehabilitative purpose. However, Kitty’s brother, Milton Andersen, disagrees.

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