Couple’s Fight Ends In Stabbing Spokane Man Charged In Death Of Lover After Body Found Down The Street From House

A Spokane man ended an argument with his lover by stabbing him to death, police said Tuesday.

Brian Grimm attacked David D. Miller with a kitchen knife during a pre-dawn struggle inside their small brown house at 1303 W. Wabash, according to documents filed in Spokane County District Court.

Grimm was charged Tuesday with one count of second-degree murder and ordered held on $200,000 bail.

Police identified Miller as the victim and released the results of an autopsy that found the 47-year-old man died from stab wounds.

Grimm, 31, told detectives he and Miller argued just after 3 a.m. Monday, according to court records.

Officers who went to the house about 3:15 a.m. found broken glass, empty alcohol containers and “several areas showing large amounts of fresh/drying blood” inside, Detective Roger Bays wrote in an affidavit.

Officers also saw a large, blackhandled knife with fresh blood on it under a sofa Grimm was sitting on when they arrived, Bays wrote.

Grimm, himself covered in blood, had deep cuts on both hands that required stitches, according to the records.

There also was a thick trail of blood leading out the front door.

Paramedics later found Miller’s body at the end of that trail, face down on a sidewalk a block from the house.

Before the body was discovered, Grimm told police several different stories about what happened inside the house and why he called 911, the documents state.

He said he had been assaulted and that “there had been a party that had gone bad.”

During an interview with Bays at the Public Safety Building later that day, Grimm admitted lying about the party and the assault, and acknowledged his fight with Miller, the documents state.

Grimm said he didn’t remember actually stabbing Miller but “does admit that it must have (been) himself that killed Miller, as nobody else was there and could have,” Bays wrote.

Detectives refused to say what the argument was about. Grimm and Miller worked at the same Chevron convenience store at Division and Cataldo.

, DataTimes