CARROLLTON (WBAP/KLIF)- A 26-year-old Flower Mound man is charged with three counts of Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon after police say he stabbed two people and strangled a third following a crash on IH-35E in Carrollton.
Dillon Stoffregen was released from Parkland Hospital overnight and transferred to the Dallas County Jail.
The incident happened in the express lanes just before 5:00 p.m., Thursday, March 18, 2021.
Witnesses say the suspect got out of his vehicle after the crash, was first in a verbal altercation, then began assaulting other drivers involved in the crash as well as a passerby who stopped to intervene.
“The witnesses tell us he pulled out two knives and started stabbing people. So it was a chaotic scene and we are lucky no one was left with life-threatening injuries. They were seriously injured but no one is expected to die,” said Jolene DeVito, a Spokeswoman with the Carrollton Police Department.
DeVito said Stoffregen was the first car in the chain reaction crash.
“Witnesses say he abruptly stopped on the highway which led to the crash, why he stopped suddenly we don’t know but it does point to some type of road rage incident,” she said.
Detectives ask that everyone who recorded either the crash or the assaults that followed contact them at (972) 466-3333 or CrimeTips@CityofCarrollton.com.
The assault victims were treated at three different North Texas hospitals. A fourth man who was injured in the initial crash was also treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
