Deputies: Suspect cuts off own pinky finger in stabbing incident that left another man injured

Deputies have arrested three men suspected of stabbing a man in a TitleMax parking lot on Broad River Road.

One suspect was captured without his pinky finger – which was found cut off in the area where the incident occurred.

Officers responded to Circle K on Broad River Road just before 5:30 p.m. Saturday, according to a Richland County Sheriff’s Department news release. They found a male victim lying on the ground, stabbed multiple times in the upper body. He was taken to a local hospital; his condition was unknown Sunday morning.

The suspects fled in a 1999 gold Saturn. Investigators later arrested and charged three people in connection with the incident – Andrew Gathers, 29, Marlon Gathers, 37, and Jarvis Hurst, 43, who were parked at the 2000 block of Ramsgate Drive later that day.

Andrew Gathers, was bleeding from his hand, and responders discovered that his right pinky finger had been amputated, according to the Sheriff’s Department, and deputies found a knife on him. A spokesman for the department said Gathers’ “own actions” had caused the dismemberment.

Andrew Gathers was taken to a local hospital, and EMS recovered recovered his pinky finger from the TitleMax parking lot where the incident occurred, the news release said. The finger has been reattached.

Marlon Gathers and Jarvis Hurst were transported to Alvin S Glenn Detention Center. Andrew Gathers will be taken there upon release from the hospital.

This story was originally published January 3, 2016 at 11:14 AM.