DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. — The U.S. Marshals, Harrisburg City Police Department and the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections are searching for Drafton Eugene Jones.
Jones, 30, is wanted by Harrisburg City Police for the following charges: criminal attempted homicide, aggravated assault with serious bodily injury, theft by unlawful taking and possession of a weapon in connection to a stabbing on May 29, 2023, that left one man seriously injured.
Police say another person involved in the assault and stabbing identified Jones as the one who stabbed the victim.
According to a criminal complaint, the victim was moving his belongings out of his ex-girlfriend's house when the girlfriend called her brother, Jones. Another suspect who police previously identified, Dale Dean Jr., allegedly drove Jones and two other men to Jones' sister's house while the victim was still moving.
The four men attacked the victim as he tried to get into his car. Jones admitted to one of his co-conspirators that he was the one to stab the victim and that he wanted to kill him, according to an affidavit of probable cause.
Jones allegedly drove away in the victim's car after the assault.
The victim was taken to the hospital with multiple life-threatening stab wounds. He underwent surgery and survived.
Police did not identify the fourth suspect in this case.
Jones is wanted by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections as a parole absconder for firearms not to be carried without a license and aggravated assault with serious bodily injury.
Jones is described as 5'10", weighs 150 pounds, has brown eyes and is bald.
