SPOKANE -- A man was arrested Monday night for allegedly stabbing a woman in the chest.

Spokane County Sheriff’s Office Deputies responded to a reported stabbing at an apartment complex near Whitworth University on E. Hawthorne Road, east of N. Division Street around 7:35 p.m.

According to SCSO, they found a woman who had been stabbed in the chest and started giving aid. She was transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The suspect, who the victim knows, was located a short distance away and arrested. He was identified as 33-year-old Michael A. Helms. Deputies say while he was in the back of a patrol car, Helms began showing signs of a possible medical emergency/overdose and was convulsing.

SCSO wrote in a press release that "the suspect appeared to stop breathing

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