Man hospitalized after being stabbed with deer antler

A Columbus man is in critical condition today after he was stabbed with a deer antler during a fight.

Columbus police responding to the incident Monday night found a man lying in the road and another man sitting nearby. Police say 55-year-old Terry Moore had a stab wound to his left ribs and a head wound. He was rushed to The Medical Center in Columbus.

According to authorities, witnesses said the man sitting with Moore, 47-year-old Eugene Ellington, stabbed him with a deer antler and struck him with the rim of a bicycle tyre. Ellington was arrested and has been charged with aggravated assault.

Police said the two men were acquaintances who argued before the fight because Moore refused to stop calling Ellington a name with an expletive.

Ellington denied that the deer antler was his.