Police arrest Paso Robles woman suspected of stabbing 16-year-old boy in the neck
The Paso Robles Police Department announced Thursday that it located and arrested a woman wanted for allegedly stabbing a 16-year-old boy in a trailer Tuesday.
That teen remained in critical but stable condition Thursday after undergoing surgery, police said.
Michaela Twyman, 24, was located Thursday by the department’s Community Action Team while walking on the railroad tracks just south of San Miguel.
Twyman was arrested and transported to Paso Robles to be interviewed by detectives, the department said in a news release.
Following the interview, Twyman was booked into County Jail on suspicion of attempted murder, the department said, and jail logs showed she was being held in lieu of $500,000 bail as of Thursday afternoon.
Police had been searching for Twyman since the stabbing; they say she “knew she was a person of interest in this investigation and purposely hid from law enforcement.”
As of late Thursday afternoon, the District Attorney’s Office had not filed any charges related to the incident. It is unknown when Twyman will appear in San Luis Obispo Superior Court.
She is accused of stabbing the teen in the neck with a folding pocketknife in her Paso Robles trailer parked in the Woodland Plaza II parking lot on Tuesday following an altercation. The 16-year-old victim, who has not been identified, fled to a local business after he was stabbed, police said.
Twyman had last been seen on foot leaving the area within minutes of the stabbing.
This story was originally published January 16, 2020 at 4:45 PM.
