Pinkney given $50,000 bond in Speed Street stabbing

Levon Pickney was given a $50,000 bond relating to the stabbing on Speed Street overnight Sunday, into Monday morning.

At around 12:30 a.m. on Monday, Vicksburg police were dispatched to Speed Street in reference to a stabbing.

An altercation ensued which allegedly led to a suspect, Levon Pinkney, stabbing another individual. Pinkney was arrested last year in relation to two stabbing incidents.

Police were able to take him into custody just before 2 a.m. The severity of injury sustained to the victim is unknown.

Pinkney appeared before Judge Angela Carpenter in Vicksburg Municipal Court on Monday and was bound over to the Warren County Grand Jury.