A 25-year-old man was charged with aggravated battery Monday in Douglas County District Court after allegedly stabbing a 17-year-old boy in the back of the neck around midnight on Sunday.

Isaac Alexander Taylor

Isaac Alexander Taylor, whose residence is listed on jail records as the Lawrence Community Shelter, was arrested at 12:10 a.m. Sunday after officers responded to a report of a stabbing outside Pickleman’s Gourmet Café, 818 Massachusetts St., Lawrence police spokesman Sgt. Trent McKinley said Monday.

McKinley said that several individuals allegedly witnessed Taylor stabbing the 17-year-old with a pocketknife before running off. When police arrived at the scene witnesses described Taylor, and officers found him “at a nearby business.”

The Douglas County Jail booking log indicates Taylor was arrested in the 100 block of East Eighth Street.

The boy was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital following the incident, where he was treated for a single stab wound and released the same day, McKinley and LMH spokeswoman Belinda Rehmer said.

The boy said he did not know Taylor, but “recalls seeing (Taylor) minutes before the incident while at Ninth and Massachusetts” streets seated near the intersection with another transient man, McKinley said.

“The victim stated he gave one of (the transient men) some change, but did not give the other subject anything,” McKinley said. “The victim speculated that may have been why he was attacked.”

At Taylor’s first appearance in court on Monday, Assistant Douglas County District Attorney Deborah Moody charged him with aggravated battery, and Douglas County Judge Pro Tem James George set Taylor’s bond at $15,000.

If Taylor makes bond, he is forbidden from returning to any location on Massachusetts Street between Sixth and 12th streets. He also may not contact the alleged victim, George ordered.

Taylor is scheduled to make his next appearance in court Tuesday.

Taylor has an extensive criminal history, with at least four previous battery convictions, according to the District Attorney’s Office.