High school student arrested for stabbing that sent victim to hospital under trauma alert

Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Braxton Tyler Edenfield, 18, was arrested yesterday morning and charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon after allegedly stabbing a man, causing the victim to be trauma-alerted to a hospital due to the extent of his injuries.

At about 10:26 a.m. on October 31, a Gainesville Police Department officer responded to a home in the 900 block of NE 19th Street, where Edenfield allegedly pulled out a pocket knife and stabbed the victim twice in the top of the right shoulder blade. The officer reported that he reviewed video of the incident.

Post Miranda, Edenfield reportedly said he was protecting his girlfriend from an adult male who hit her in the face while engaged in a physical fight with another male.

Edenfield, who is a 12th-grade student according to a court document, has no criminal convictions. Judge Adam Lee ordered him held without bail pending a motion on a hearing from the State Attorney’s office to hold him without bail until trial.

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