Port Angeles – The Clallam County Sheriff’s Office on Monday released a new set of details on a violent carjacking that occurred Sunday in Carlsborg. We now know that the owner of that car, a 69-year-old Port Angeles man, was stabbed in the neck and thrown from the driver’s seat by one of the 2 arrested suspects while their 7 children were in the back seat.

At around 8:10pm Sunday, Clallam County deputies responded to a report of an assault on Carlsborg Road near the Fire Station. The reporting party said they saw a fight happening inside a vehicle that led to a man falling out of the driver’s side door before the vehicle fled northbound on Carlsborg Road.

Deputies arrived to find 69-year-old Port Angeles resident Melvin Swagerty suffering from a stab wound to the neck. Investigators say

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