Jory Loughman

A Butler teenager allegedly stabbed during a weekend altercation outside a city home was arrested hours later after returning to the same house armed with a knife of his own, authorities said.

The suspect, 19-year-old Jory D. Loughman, is being held on several charges in the Butler County Prison.

Butler County police said they initially found Loughman about 4 p.m. Saturday when they were called to a home in the 400 block of Brown Avenue for a reported disturbance.

The teen was bleeding from an apparent stab wound to his right side, said city police Deputy Chief David Adam.

Also in the house bleeding from the right hand was a 16-year-old girl. Adam said that Loughman and the girl share the same address at a nearby home on Brown Avenue but he did not know their relationship.

Police believe Loughman had gone to the neighbor’s home and gotten into an altercation with 18-year-old Hunter Dittmer, who lives there. Adam described the altercation as a “domestic,” possibly over a female.

The two young men eventually went outside where Loughman was apparently stuck with Dittmer’s small pocket knife, police said. Dittmer was not charged.

The 16-year-old girl, who also was at the house, apparently got angry watching the altercation and punched a window.

“That’s how she cut her hand,” Adam said.

Loughman was taken by ambulance to Butler Memorial Hospital where he received stitches for his minor stab wound. The girl did not need medical treatment.

Adam said officers tried to interview Loughman but he refused to talk about what happened.

Police subsequently consulted with the Butler County District Attorney’s Office.

“An assistant district attorney advised that the case lacked prosecutorial merit because Loughman did not want to cooperate,” Adam said. No charges were filed.

But police were called to the house shortly before 9 p.m. when they say Loughman showed up again, this time with his own 7-inch knife.

Adam said officers suspect he went there looking for Dittmer, who told police that Loughman brandished a large knife and threatened him.

A neighbor corroborated Dittmer’s account, recounting that he heard the suspect threaten “to stab and kill” the victim, Adam said,

No one was injured in the second altercation.

Police found Loughman at his home, where he was arrested. They also recovered a knife on the porch of his home.

Loughman was arraigned on charges of terroristic threats, possession of a prohibited offensive weapon, disorderly conduct and harassment. He was placed in the county prison on $10,000 bail following arraignment.