A 37-year-old Minneapolis woman is facing a felony charge after a man told police she cut him with a knife and a broken glass bottle during an encounter last month. Alicia Rene Williams was charged in Hennepin County District Court with second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon, according to the case against her.
According to MN CRIME, officers were sent to the 1200 block of Queen Avenue North on October 25 after a report of a stabbing. The outlet's account, drawn from the criminal complaint, says the man told officers that Williams came to where he was and cut him.
Per the complaint account, officers who responded saw small cuts on the man's face, legs and arm. The complaint alleges that Williams slashed him with both a knife and a broken glass bottle, and the report states she was arrested following the incident.
Charge Filed Days Later
The criminal complaint against Williams was filed on October 27, two days after the reported stabbing. The case page tracking the filing labels the information an allegation sourced to a criminal complaint, noting it was updated November 2 — and stresses that a charge is not a finding of guilt.
Under the Minnesota statute covering second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon, a conviction can carry a sentence of up to seven years in prison, a fine of up to $14,000, or both, according to the Minnesota Revisor of Statutes. That maximum describes the statute's text and is not a predicted or actual sentence in this case.
Case Fits Into a Broader Citywide Pattern
The allegations against Williams land amid a documented rise in reported aggravated assaults across Minneapolis. The city logged 1,518 aggravated assault cases in the first half of 2026, up from 1,346 over the same stretch in 2025, according to data reported by KSTP. Rape reports also climbed, from 214 to 252, even as homicides and robberies both declined over the same period.
That comparison came from a violent crime survey the Major Cities Chiefs Association released August 1, measuring the first half of 2026 against the same months in 2025. Across the 66 major cities included in that survey, aggravated assaults were actually down 5.7%, putting Minneapolis's increase at odds with the broader national trend.
Other Minneapolis crime figures have moved in mixed directions this year. The Star Tribune reported the city saw 27% fewer homicides through September 2026 compared with the same period in 2025, with 41 homicides recorded so far this year against 55 last year — a count that includes the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents during Operation Metro Surge. Gunshot victims citywide fell roughly 22% from last year despite several mass shooting incidents in 2026.
Property crime has told a different story. The same Star Tribune report found vehicle thefts up 9% and all larcenies up 6% for the year, driven partly by a roughly 50% spike in thefts of vehicle parts. Vehicle thefts specifically rose about a quarter in the first half of 2026 even as they fell 20% nationwide over the same stretch. None of these citywide figures establish any connection to the Williams case specifically; they describe broader patterns reported separately from the Queen Avenue North incident.
The procedural status of the charge against Williams, including whether she has entered a plea, has not been detailed in the available case materials.
