Search warrants offer new details about fatal stabbing in Penns Valley
A Spring Mills man died and a woman was questioned by state police at Rockview on Thursday after stabbing the man in her Haines Township home.
Robert Farwell, 26, arrived about 4:30 a.m. Thursday at the woman’s house along the 200 block of Mountain Avenue unannounced, state police at Rockview wrote in a search warrant.
She told police Farwell made a series of vulgar or degrading comments or demands shortly after his arrival. The woman barricaded herself in the bedroom during the argument and said she would call the police if he did not leave, police wrote.
Farwell threatened to “kill her” and tried to enter the bedroom by kicking in the door, the woman told police.
She opened the door with her left hand, picked up a steak knife in her right hand and told Farwell she was coming out of the bedroom. The two were about three-to-four feet away from one another when she opened the door, police wrote.
They “lunged” toward each other and the woman stabbed Farwell in the chest, police wrote. She dropped the knife, ran out a back door and screamed for help, police wrote.
Farwell was unconscious in the front yard when emergency medical service personnel arrived. He was transported to Mount Nittany Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
An autopsy is scheduled for Friday, Centre County Coroner Scott Sayers wrote in a statement.
The woman had blood on her hands when officers arrived, was not wearing pants and appeared to be under the influence of a controlled substance, police wrote.
The ongoing homicide investigation is “in relation to a domestic incident,” police and Centre County District Attorney Bernie Cantorna said. The nature of the relationship between Farwell and the woman was not immediately clear.
No charges have been filed. The woman was released after being interviewed, police said.
This story was originally published April 8, 2021 at 2:19 PM.