A Columbia man turned himself in to Jefferson City Police on Sunday morning after Boone County Sheriff’s Department deputies say he attacked two woman with a frying pan, stabbed one of them three times with a steak knife and then stole one of their cars.
William Franko, 23, was being held at Boone County Jail on Sunday afternoon on $9,000 bond on two of five charges — felony stealing and second-degree assault. The other three charges, for which bond has not been set as of Sunday afternoon, are first-degree assault and two counts of armed criminal action.
Boone County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a disturbance at 2:54 a.m. Sunday in the 4400 block of Mesa Drive in south Columbia, where they found the 20-year-old woman who had been stabbed and hit with a frying pan. She and the other woman, whose age was not immediately available, were treated and released for minor injuries.
Franko turned himself in to Jefferson City police at 7:45 Sunday morning. Sgt. Chris Lindsey of the Jefferson City Police Department said Franko was covered in blood when he arrived, but medics found no injuries.
“He told us that he blacked out at the wheel of his car,” Lindsey said. “He didn’t know where he was, nor how he got to Jeff City, so he drove around erratically, trying to get a police officer’s attention. He eventually happened upon the police department, where he turned himself in.”
Court records indicate Franko is serving five years probation after he pleaded guilty to second-degree burglary last year.