BATAVIA – A Batavia man, who previously served time in state prison for attempted robbery, has been charged with attempted murder in connection with an October stabbing on Jackson Street.
Tyshon L. Taylor, 25, was arrested Thursday afternoon by City Police and charged with second-degree attempted murder, first-degree assault and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
The attempted murder and assault charges are both class B violent felonies under state penal law. The weapons charge is a class D felony.
The charges followed an investigation into a stabbing that occurred about 9:30 p.m. Oct. 18 on Jackson Street.
The incident was reported as police, firefighters and rescue personnel were initially responding to Highland Park for a reported stabbing. A preliminary investigation revealed that the victim was stabbed about 9:30 p.m. somewhere on Jackson Street.
Taylor allegedly encountered the victim walking down the street and stabbed him in the abdomen, police said.
Taylor then fled the scene.
The victim was transported to Erie County Medical Center and treated for injuries and hospitalized. The victim did survive the attack.
Taylor was arraigned in Batavia City Court before Judge Thomas Burns and remanded to the Genesee County Jail with no bail set. Taylor is scheduled to re-appear in Batavia City Court on Nov. 10.
Taylor has had several encounters with police, going back to at least 2014.
In May 2020, while on parole, he was arrested after police responded to Walnut Street for a domestic incident in which Taylor had alleged cracked the windshield of a woman’s car. When Taylor was being taken into custody he told office that he had been in quarantine and began coughing on officers. The incident occurred in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Taylor was charged with felony aggravated family offense, felony criminal mischief, endangering the welfare of a child and menacing. He was committed to Genesee County Jail on a parole violation detainer.
Taylor was on parole for a 2015 robbery conviction.
He was 18 when he and another teenager jumped a person at a Central Avenue house, hitting the victim in the head with weapons and fists and stealing property.
Taylor pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree robbery and was sentenced to three years in prison, with three years of post-release supervision. The other teen was sentenced to a two-year prison term with three years post-release supervision. The teens were denied youthful offender status because of the violent nature of the robbery, according to Daily News story at the time of sentencing.
He was released early and in May 2018 was arrested and charged with menacing after he threatened to kill another person.
He was later convicted of violating parole and was returned to prison in December 2018 and released in November 2019, according to state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
In 2014, Taylor was accused for forcibly stealing a cell phone and headphones from a person on State Street and also using a knife to threaten a person on State Street the same night, according to The Daily News archives.
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