Portage Homeowner Won’t Face Charges in Fatal Stabbing

A Portage, Michigan, homeowner will not face criminal charges for fatally stabbing 51-year-old Roy Harris James Jr. during a confrontation outside the homeowner’s Cedarcrest Avenue home on Sept. 30. Police said the homeowner went outside after hearing someone trying to break into a vehicle, and James pulled a knife during their struggle; the homeowner took the knife and stabbed him. The homeowner was initially arrested on an open-murder charge, but the Kalamazoo County Prosecutor’s Office declined to authorize charges after reviewing the evidence and applicable law, concluding that a reasonable probability of conviction did not exist.