RFP Staff
♦ Antonio Javier Landers, 28, a security employee of the Firewater Lounge on Avalon Drive who thrilled both patrons and the readers of the RFP with his alleged dazzling knife work back in October in our article “Primal Knife Fight Turns Savage at the Firewater Lounge on Avalon Drive in Salisbury, N.C. Early Friday” was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury (felony). Under a $1,500 secured bond, Landers was briefly in the Rowan County Detention Center before making bond.
October 30th Article “Primal Knife Fight Turns Savage at the Firewater Lounge on Avalon Drive in Salisbury, N.C. Early Friday”:
“The tidal wave of Salisbury violence has not dampened. It appears to merely have changed weaponry. Salisbury Police were dispatched to the Novant Health Rowan Medical Center ER at about 1:40 A.M. after two knife fighters showed up after their hell-for-leather tiff at the Firewater Lounge on Avalon Drive. The two participants in the ancient combat sport of knife fighting were identified as Daulon Ivra Sampson, 28, of Statesville Blvd. in Salisbury, who was a Firewater patron, and Antonio Landers of Salisbury, a Firewater employee said to be working security.
Sampson, suffering brutal knife wounds to his face and chest and badly bloodied, was transported, after his Novant ER experience, by helicopter to Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem.
Landers suffered from a badly gashed pinky finger that exposed bone.
At this time the investigation continues and no charges are yet filed.
Daulon Ivra Sampson is no stranger to the Salisbury knife fighting scene. In April he was involved in a knife and broken bottle scuffle at the grocery store across from the Livingstone College campus with Javion Scott who allegedly stabbed Sampson in the leg, leaving a gash 4 to 5 inches long. Scott was later arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon.
Pictured below is Daulon Ivra Sampson:
