Onawa, Iowa – The Iowa Department of Public Safety reports that at around 1:50-a.m today (Wednesday), the Monona County Communications Center responded to an individual suffering from being stabbed and was subsequently receiving medical treatment at the Burgess Health Center, Onawa.  The individual was flown Mercy One in Sioux City, Iowa.

After an investigation by the Monona County Sheriff’s Office and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, the stabbing victim has been identified as 32-year-old Derek Webster Jr., of Monona, Iowa.  Webster Jr is currently in stable condition at Mercy One.

Inessa Lyons, 30 year old, of Monona, Iowa was arrested by the Monona County Sheriff’s Office and has been charged for Attempted Murder and Willful Injury.

Court documents indicate Webster told investigators he’d been attacked outside a bar by a white man on a motorcycle, but Lyons later admitted Webster had repeatedly asked her to take him to a store to buy more booze and she stabbed him with a knife in their kitchen.

Inessa Lyons

Note: A criminal charge is merely an accusation, and a defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.