Dec 15, 2018 2 min read

Three men were socializing at a bar in Greene County in early November of last year, but because of a stabbing, one is still receiving medical care and another is headed to prison.

Sentenced Thursday to serve four to eight years in a state correctional institution was Andrew Dalton King, 25, who lived on Maple Street, Carmichaels, at the time of his arrest Nov. 7, 2017.

Washington County Judge Gary Gilman accepted King’s plea to a charge of aggravated assault of Travis Gilblom, 26, of Waynesburg.

According to Centerville Borough police, King, Gilblom and a third man were drinking at a tavern in Pitt Gas, Greene County, when King left and began walking.

It was raining, so Gilblom and a passenger left in a vehicle to find King and offer him a ride home.

Police were called to the entrance of Ten Mile Creek County Park along Main Street in Clarksville, where Gilblom was bleeding profusely from multiple wounds of the neck, chest and shoulder. He was flown from East Bethlehem Township by helicopter to a Pittsburgh hospital.

According to police, King reached into the vehicle and began stabbing Gilblom.

King, who had fled to a nearby home, was identified as the assailant by both the victim and the passenger, and was taken into custody. Police recovered the knife used in the attack. King has spent the intervening period in Washington County jail.

Assistant District Attorney Craig R. McKay prosecuted the case. Representing King was Molly Maguire Gaussa, court-appointed conflicts counsel.