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Steak knife stabbing in woman’s Goldey-Beacom dorm room

Esteban Parra and Cris Barrish
The News Journal

A 19-year-old Wilmington man used a steak knife to stab a man after he tried to break up a fight with the attacker’s girlfriend at a Goldey-Beacom College dormitory early Friday, police and court records said.

The 19-year-old victim, who suffered a half-inch wound to his left scalp area, was treated at Christiana Hospital for injuries that were not life-threatening, authorities said.

Gary Wirt, president-elect of the business college on Limestone Road in Pike Creek, said the woman is a student who will be questioned to see if she broke school rules by letting the men into her fourth-floor apartment at Leach Hall.

“We have judicial procedures for that,” Wirt said. “We will take a look at whether or not she let them in knowing full well that this was a violation.”

“Neither of the gentlemen involved in that are students, nor should they have been there,” Wirt added.

Tykee D. Hyland, of Wilmington, faces charges of second-degree assault and possession of a deadly weapon during a felony. He was freed after posting $40,000 secured bail. The knife he used at least six inches long, police said.

According to the account by state police spokesman Master Cpl. Jeffrey Hale and the arrest warrant, Hyland was fighting with his girlfriend about 2 a.m. when the victim tried to intervene. The two men began fighting and Hyland reached into a kitchen drawer and grabbed the steak knife.

Troopers responded to a 911 call that reported an “assault with injuries” and found blood in several locations around the dorm room.

The victim, who police interviewed at the emergency room, identified Hyland as his attacker, police said. Hyland was arrested outside the dormitory without incident.

Contact Esteban Parra at (302) 324-2299, eparra@delawareonline.com or Twitter @eparra3. Contact senior investigative reporter Cris Barrish at (302) 324-2785, cbarrish@delawareonline.com, on Facebook or Twitter @crisbarrish.