PSP: Girardville men attack man with knife, axe
KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL - Law enforcement agencies at the scene of an incident on North Line Street in Girardville on August 4, 2025.
GIRARDVILLE – Two Girardville men are facing charges after an alleged axe-wielding attack, sending a man to a Montour County hospital overnight.
Isaiah Fasig, 20, and Anthony LaGambina, 27, both of 126 North Line Street, are both in Schuylkill County Prison on assault and related charges. Fasig faces felony aggravated assault charges while LaGambina faces misdemeanor simple assault and reckless endangerment charges.
According to court documents filed by Trooper Kyle Brands of the State Police at Frackville, police were called to the area of 148 North Line Street for a reported disturbance involving multiple people around 11:30pm Sunday night.
Officers from across northern Schuylkill County, including Shenandoah, Mahanoy City, West Mahanoy Township, and Frackville, converged on the scene and found a man, Marcus Sutton, stabbed multiple times.
Lagambina and Fasig were both detained at the scene.
Sutton was taken by an Ashland ambulance to a Geisinger Medical Center near Danville after an air medical helicopter declined to fly “due to weather” as a Sentinel reporter observed clear, starry skies over Girardville and the Mahanoy Valley.
Troopers interviewed witnesses, one of which provided security camera footage from a nearby garage.
The video showed Sutton and another man arguing with the two suspects outside the garage. Lagambina was holding a knife with and Fasig wielded an axe.
The two men entered 126 North Line Street with the weapons and exited without it. Troopers received permission to search the home for weapons and found the items in plain view on a desk and shelf.
Another knife and axe were found. The knife was bloody, troopers said. All four weapons were seized.
Another witness told troopers that an argument ensued as Sutton was driving north on Line Street as LaGambina and Fasig were walking south in the middle of the road. Sutton was then stabbed twice by both men.
Fasig allegedly struck Sutton twice with a knife and once with an axe.
The two suspects were interviewed at the State Police barracks near Morea and Fasig said the argument stemmed from a confrontation earlier that night and claimed he was concerned Sutton was following him.
Because of that concern, Fasig armed LaGambina.
When Sutton was in the area, the two men told troopers they left the home to find him and learn what his problem was. The confrontation became physical, LaGambina allegedly told troopers, and he stabbed Sutton, saying “I tried to hit someone [with the knife], but I hit the f—–g car.” He showed troopers a bruise to prove it.
Fasig told troopers a similar story but claimed he stabbed Sutton because he grabbed his axe, telling troopers “I coulda got his neck. You know what I mean? I wasn’t trying to hurt him, I was trying to get the weapon back off him.”
When Sutton didn’t release the axe, troopers said Fasig told them “I had to give him a couple, you know, stabs,” thinking Sutton was drunk an unpredictable.
Asked why he didn’t flee when Sutton grabbed the axe, he said he didn’t want to abandon the axe because “it’s mine,” troopers said.
Fasig was charged with three counts of felony aggravated assault and one count each of misdemeanor simple assault, summary harassment and summary disorderly conduct.
He was arraigned by Magisterial District Judge Edward Tarantelli at 9:30am this morning and committed to Schuylkill County Prison, unable to post $250,000 bail.
LaGambina was charged with one count each of misdemeanor simple assault, reckless endangerment, summary harassment, and disorderly conduct. He was committed to Schuylkill County Prison, unable to post $150,000 bail.
An update on Sutton’s condition was not provided.
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