VIDEO: Victim describes Cedar Rapids stabbing

UPDATE: Hours after he was stabbed five times, Julius Trammell was searching the area for a knife.

Trammell, 37, was stabbed after a confrontation on the corner of 17th Street and C Avenue NE just before 11 p.m. Tuesday, police said. In an exclusive interview with The Gazette, he said he was walking his dog when a car pulled up and a woman he's been trying to break up with approached him.

Trammell told her not to get in his face, and that it was over. He turned away and then felt the pain.

“She just started sticking me,” he said.

Contina Foster, 36, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and willful injury after police located her at her residence. She was transported to the Linn County Jail.

Trammell was treated and released from St. Luke's Hospital this morning. He needed 17 stitches for stab wounds to his back and arms. He also had a small cut on his throat.

“One of my wounds is two inches deep,” Trammell said. “I can't use this (left) arm.”

Trammell said he and Foster had been dating a few months and previously lived together, but he'd been trying to break up with her for the past four days, he said.

“Breaking up is hard to do,” Trammell said. “I joke about it because I'm alive to joke about it.”

Contina D. Foster, 36, of 224 29th St. Dr. SE, is charged with attempted murder, willful injury causing serious injury, and assault while displaying a dangerous weapon in this morning's stabbing in the 400 block of 17th Street NE. Court documents filed this morning say she stabbed Julius Trammel “numerous times with a knife with the intentn to inflict serious injury and with the intent to cause death.”

Foster remains in the Linn County Jail in lieu of $30,000 cash bail.