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Police say argument over text messages led to MTSU student stabbing

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WMOT)  --  A student at Middle Tennessee State was arrested over the weekend after police say she stabbed her roommate during an argument over text messages.

Police say they’ve charged 20 year-old Tamara J. Banks with Domestic Aggravated Assault in the case.

The arrest report says police were called to an apartment on Wenlon Drive Saturday afternoon where they found 19 year-old MTSU student Diamonique L. McClung bleeding from cuts to the back of her head and right forearm. McClung told police that Banks had stabbed her.

Police say Banks was read her rights, but the agreed to recount her recollection of the incident. She says the women, argued, then fought before friends pulled them apart.

Banks says she then went to the kitchen and retrieved a knife and confronted McClung again, as police say she worded it, “only trying to scare her,” and that she cut her roommate “unintentionally.”

McClung was treated at St. Thomas Rutherford County for her wounds.

Banks was booked into the Rutherford County Jail on $7000 bond. Her initial appearance is scheduled for November 20, 2014 in Rutherford County General Sessions Court.