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Super Bowl Party Ends With Stabbing

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LISA A. DAVIS and DAVID KRAUT

ldavis@tampatrib.com, dkraut@tampatrib.com

Published: February 3, 2009

ELFERS - Brian "David" Shaw thought he was going to have a few drinks with an old girlfriend after a Super Bowl party early Monday and ended up with a knife in the gut.

Resting in a bed at Community Hospital in New Port Richey on Tuesday, Shaw said he knew he had been cut but didn't know he had a blade in his abdomen until his laceration was sewn up and he continued having pain. An MRI later revealed a broken blade remained inside and surgeons removed it, Shaw said.

"I was a little stunned," he said about the revelation, but added it really wasn't a big deal. "Sew me up, fix me up. I'll be fine."

Pasco detectives are searching for his two attackers and still investigating the case, said sheriff's office spokesman Kevin Doll.

According to sheriff's office reports and Shaw's account Tuesday, this is what happened:

Just before 2 a.m. Shaw and Jessica Duke got to her grandfather's home, 4445 Spring Lake Court, where she also lives. Th door was locked and Duke had apparently lost her keys. They tried to get in through a sliding glass door in the back, but two men with white shirts tied around their faces attacked him.

"They pushed me on the bed and started hitting me and so on. I was trying to fight back. I hit one of them with a beer bottle so," Shaw said from his hospital bed.

Shaw had puncture wounds and lacerations to his abdomen, head and ear. He doesn't know which injury was inflicted when, as he admitted to detectives that he had been drinking heavily before the incident.

When the attackers left, they stole his wallet containing $60, Shaw said, but they left something behind in that same front left pocket: the knife handle.

Shaw and Duke eventually went to the hospital once he realized the extent of his injuries. She wasn't injured.

Shaw, of Tampa, said he's surprised that after serving in Afghanistan with the National Guard unscathed, he returned and had this happen.

"It's kinda ridiculous," he said.

Reporter Lisa A. Davis can be reached at (727) 815-1083.

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