Overview
- Police identified the suspect as Christopher Steven Schwable, 36, taken into custody at Clear Lake Drive and North Spring Garden Avenue after the Tuesday morning incident.
- Investigators say he choked a boy at a bus stop and produced a folding knife before a passerby struck him with a toolbox in self-defense and restrained him until officers arrived.
- Officers recovered a green-and-black folding knife from beneath the suspect and reported consistent witness and victim statements that established probable cause.
- The child suffered a cut to a finger, was visibly distraught, and was released to parents, while Schwable sustained a head injury and received hospital treatment.
- Schwable now faces counts of aggravated child abuse and aggravated assault, declined to speak with investigators, and his prior arrest last month ended with prosecutors dropping those unrelated charges.