A Crestview man faces multiple charges after neighbors say he smashed a window, threatened to kill them, and tried to stab his way through a door. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has charged 38-year old Landon Lamar Blair of 3650 Grady Johnson Road with assault with intent to commit a felony, burglary, and criminal mischief. Deputies responded October 14th to a call of a disturbance in progress at 3652 Grady Johnson Road. Blair was spotted entering his home next door.
His neighbor says she woke around 6:20 a.m. to the sound of breaking glass and found her living room window broken. She says Blair was walking away and told her he was going to come back and kill her and her children for bothering him. He then returned and threatened them again through the broken window, pulled out a knife from his boot, and stabbed around the window frame before heading to the front door and trying to pull it open.
The victim says she had locked the door and pulled on the handle to keep it shut. She says Blair continued to yell threats and began to stab through the door with his knife. When she told him she had called law enforcement, he left and went to his home.
Deputies say Blair told them he remembers coming from his neighbor and entering his gate but refused to answer any other questions. They found a deep cut and several smaller lacerations on Blair’s arm. They also found an empty knife sheath attached to his belt line on the right side of his waist.
When they recovered the knife, its blade was consistent with the holes in the door.
