An Elizabethtown man is in custody inside the Bladen County Detention Center on several charges, including attempted first degree murder, in what the Sheriff’s Office reported as a domestic incident.
David Wayne Parks, who is 37 years old and lives in Elizabethtown, has been charged with the following, according to the Sheriff’s Office:
• Felony attempted first degree murder
• Felony assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury
• Felony first degree kidnapping
• Felony assault by strangulation
• Felony assault serious bodily injury
• Misdemeanor crime of domestic violence
• Misdemeanor communicating threats
• 5 counts of misdemeanor assault inflict serious injury with minor present
• 5 counts of misdemeanor child abuse
According to the Sheriff’s Office, a woman who appeared to have been assaulted was reported near the 3500 block of Peanut Plant Road in Elizabethtown about 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 12.
Deputies found the woman with multiple body injuries and severe head trauma. She was airlifted to a hospital with life threatening injuries. Neither the woman nor the hospital were identified by the Sheriff’s Office.