ROCHESTER, Minn. – A Rochester woman has been charged belatedly with stabbing a man in an altercation over a dog fight near a park. Charged was Debra Ann Pruitt, age 63, whose dog reportedly started it all. The man told police he was walking his dog home when a dog belonging to Pruitt attacked his dog: Pruitt pulled a switchblade to stab his dog. The man said that he pushed Pruitt to save his dog and ended pinning her to the ground to take the switchblade away. At that point she stabbed him, he said. The man showed bloody cuts on an arm to officers. The incident was March 17 abut 10 p.m. Video from a door-ring video confirmed the man’s account, police said. Pending further hearings, Pruitt was released on her own recognizance.
