Police: Three Men Stabbed in Friday Night Bar Brawl

Image: Brian Erwin Rowell (PWCPD)

A Nokesville man is behind bars after being charged with stabbing three other men Friday night during a fight at a Gainesville bar.

Brian Erwin Rowell, 47, of 14585 Leary St., has been charged with three counts of aggravated malicious wounding and is being held without bond at the Prince William-Manassas regional jail, according to the Prince William County Police Department. His next date in court is March 18.

The three stabbing victims are middle-aged men, but they did not cooperate with officers investigating the incident, and in a report, the Prince William police said the incident was “gang related.”

Officers responded at 11:42 p.m. Friday to the report of a stabbing at the MVP Bar and Grill at 7518 Old Linton Hall Road in Gainesville, according to a police report. The caller told police that the three stabbing victims were involved in a verbal altercation with Rowell that escalated.

The victims included a 46-year-old man of no fixed address, a 47-year-old Broad Run man and a 48-year-old man from Gainesville. During the fight, Rowell stabbed them in the lower body, forearm and face, the police report said. The parties were eventually separated and the police were contacted.

The three victims were transported to a local hospital for non-life threatening injuries. Following the investigation, Rowell was arrested without incident, the police said.