Police Investigate Fatal Stabbing

LONGVIEW –- Longview police say a 40-year-old Longview man was stabbed to death Thursday morning by his wife after officers had been called to the residence multiple times for domestic violence calls. Justice of the Peace B.H. Jameson said he pronounced Ray Dorphus Jacobs dead at about 2:15 a.m. at Good Shepherd Medical Center. Jameson said he had a stab wound on the left side of his chest.

Prior to the fatal stabbing, Longview Police had been dispatched to the residence two other times, once at 9:15 and again at 11:30 Wednesday, in connection with domestic violence calls between Jacobs and his wife. Police spokeswoman Kristie Brian said the first time they were dispatched Jacobs wasn’t there, and the second time the couple agreed to separate. Brian said officers were called back to the residence in the 1600 block of Oden Street at about 1:15 a.m. by Jacobs’ wife, whose name is being withheld, who said her husband had hit her and was now lying on the ground with a stab wound.

Brian said the woman was taken in for questioning, but had not been arrested. She said the investigation will be turned over to a Gregg County grand jury to decide the woman’s fate.