Crime & Safety
Police: Riverhead Man Stabs Girlfriend, Self in Downtown Gas Station
The 37-year-old man was charged with second-degree assault.
A Riverhead man was found and arrested by Riverhead Town police with an apparently self-inflicted knife wound after police said the man stabbed his live-in girlfriend in the arm at a downtown gas station on Dec. 13, according to a statement released by town police.
Kristopher Smilowska, 37, reportedly stabbed his live-in girlfriend in the arm at the convenience store on West Main Street at about 2:13 a.m., then fled on foot, according to a police report of the incident. The victim's wound was not life-threatening, police said.
Police said they responded to the incident and found Smilowska on Raynor Avenue. He had stabbed himself in the chest, according to a police report of the incident.
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Smilowska was arrested for second-degree assault and taken first to and later to Stony Brook University Hospital for treatment, police said.
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