College Student Arrested

In House-Party Stabbing

ONEONTA – A 19-year-old Delhi man was arrested after allegedly stabbing a 22-year-old in the back following a fight at a house party on Columbia Street.

Dylan Cumpston, 19, a Hartwick College student, was arrested after police were called to Fox Hospital at 3:36 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 30, with the report SUNY Oneonta student had been stabbed. Police arrived to find a victim being treated for a stab wound on his upper back.

A press release said investigators found there had been a fight at the victim’s home on Columbia Street at about 3:20 a.m. after Cumpston was ejected from a party there.  He returned and the fight ensued, police said.

The victim was treated, sent home, and is expected to make a full recovery.

Cumpston was arrested for assault in the second degree, a class D felony, and criminal possession of a weapon, fourth degree, a class A misdemeanor. If convicted, he faces up to  eight years incarceration.