More details in Cape Charles stabbing death

By Linda Cicoira

More details were disclosed in court records Monday in the stabbing death of a 67-year-old Cape Charles man.

Forty-five-year-old Jamar Jones, of Fooks Lane in the Pungoteague area, was arrested on March 20 for the alleged Feb. 18 premeditated first-degree murder of Calvin Cummings. Jones is being held in the Eastern Shore Regional Jail without bond. Defense lawyer Richard Phillips of Cape Charles was appointed Monday to represent Jones.

Officer W.E. Lewis of Cape Charles Police Department wrote in the court file, “I was dispatched to 831 Heritage Acres Court” regarding “an individual laying on their porch, which soon after was updated to a stabbing. When I arrived on the scene, I located a man, who I knew to be Calvin Cummings, on his front porch, stabbed multiple times to the throat and upper chest and had no pulse.”

Cummings was pronounced dead at the scene.

“During … my investigation,” Lewis continued, “I … identified Jamar Jones leaving the scene of the stabbing with bloody gloves and a bloody knife.”

Three years ago, the victim was convicted of unlawful wounding and disorderly conduct in connection with a dominoes game that turned violent. All but the time Cummings served was suspended.