Lakeview woman charged following stabbing incident makes first court appearance

A Lakeview woman, 43-year-old Kristina Coyer, made her first appearance in Marion County Circuit Court Wednesday on a felony battery charge following an incident when she allegedly stabbed an Oakland woman. The victim’s husband held the Baxter County woman at gunpoint until law enforcement arrived. The incident occurred July 12th along Hugh Lane in Oakland.

According to the probable cause affidavit filed Wednesday morning, officers arrived to find Coyer speaking incoherently and the female victim with a laceration on a finger on her right hand and a scrape near her left armpit.

The victim told officers she was asleep in her bedroom when she awoke to hear a female voice in another room ask her husband, “Where is your wife?” She heard her husband say his wife was sleeping, and she dozed back off before hearing the bedroom door slam.

When she looked up, she saw a blonde woman, later identified as Coyer, locking the bedroom door before running toward her yelling, “Are you Monica?”

The victim said Coyer then stabbed her in the shoulder with a knife. When she put her hands up in defense, the second cut was to her right little finger. She told officers Coyer brought the weapon down three or four times.

The victim was able to jump up and unlock the bedroom door, with Coyer jumping into the bed, where she sat for the next 30 minutes making statements such as “things changing into panthers.” She said Coyer told her she had been “playing a game, and she came down to kill someone.”

At this point, the victim’s husband had retrieved a shotgun and was holding Coyer at gunpoint. The victim said Coyer kept begging her husband to shoot her, saying she would “go to jail for life.” The victim said at some point Coyer jumped off the bed saying, “Panthers coming out of the pillows.” She said Coyer told her she was standing in a certain place, so if her husband shot her, he would take out his wife, too.

The victim’s husband told officers he had been on his porch when a lady, he didn’t know, other than in passing, came down his driveway saying a man was after her with a gun.

He said they went inside his house, and he locked the door behind them. He said the woman, later identified as Coyer, went to the kitchen, opened the silverware drawer and took out a steak knife. He told her to put it away and thought she had.

He proceeded to retrieve his gun, and when he returned, Coyer was gone. He heard a yell from the bedroom, rushed to the door, and found it locked.

A short time later his wife opened the door, and he saw Coyer sitting on their bed with a knife in her hand. Coyer threw down the knife, and he said he returned it to the kitchen.

Coyer is free after posting a $10,000 bond and is set to reappear in circuit court for arraignment on August 22nd.

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