Scott Bolte

A Butler man is accused of stabbing another man five times with a knife during an altercation early Monday morning at the home where they live, authorities said.

City police arrested 46-year-old Scott M. Bolte on a felony assault charge. He is in the Butler County Prison on $10,000 bail.

Injured was Alexander Shelatree, 25, who was treated at Butler Memorial Hospital for non-life threatening stab wounds to his arm, chest and leg. His condition was not immediately known.

Police said they were called for the stabbing at 1:07 a.m. at a house on the 200 block of West Diamond Street. Officers got there and found Bolte on the street with a folding knife closed in his hand.

He admitted that he stabbed someone inside the home, according to court documents. He turned over the knife.

A small amount of blood was on the 2½-inch blade of the knife, police said.

Patrolman Myles Bizub found Shelatree laying on the living room floor, writhing and screaming in pain. His shirt was set with blood on the left side.

“I observed (three) stab wounds to the left arm, one wound to the upper left side of the chest and one to the upper left thigh,” Bizub said in his affidavit.

Butler firefighters and a Butler Ambulance Service crew were called.

The wounds were described as being about 1-inch long and “not too deep,” a fire department report said.

Police said they spoke to two others who also live at the house and saw the stabbing.

Both eyewitnesses — Mary Shelatree, 45, and Bruce Ealy, 31 — recounted the defendant and victim being in an argument that turned into a “mutual shoving match,” documents said.

They said Bolte at some point pulled a knife and stabbed Shelatree several times. Moments later, according to the witnesses' accounts, Shelatree was bleeding.

District Judge Sue Haggerty arraigned Bolte on a charge of aggravated assault.