The Quad City Times reporting that a Mercer County man has been arrested in Scott County after police say he stabbed a man in the hand and abdomen with a small pocket knife behind a downtown Davenport bar. 26 year old Ryan Kirby of Seaton is charged with assault causing serious injury and domestic abuse assault while displaying a weapon stemming from the October 31st incident behind Boozie’s Bar & Grille. He will be arraigned December 5th and remains in custody at the Scott County Jail. The Times report indicates the stab wound to the abdomen required immediate surgery and the man was placed in ICU. The published report also reveals Kirby pleaded guilty in Rock Island County Circuit Court to aggravated criminal sexual abuse and was sentenced to five years in prison in August 2014. He would also plead guilty in December 2018 to violating sex offender registration and was sentenced to 24 months of probation and 180 days in jail, according to the Times article.
