Suspect in Hyatt Stabbing Surrenders to Police

A West Virginia man accused of stabbing a newlywed last week at the Hyatt Regency at Pittsburgh International Airport has turned himself in to authorities. 

, 28, of Weirton, WV, surrendered at 5:40 p.m. Tuesday by walking into an Army recruiting station in Steubenville, OH. Furman told an Army recruiter that he was wanted on charges in Pennsylvania, according to Allegheny County Police. 

The recruiter drove Furman to the Steubenville police department.  He is now held in the Jefferson County Jail in Steubenville pending extradition to Pennsylvania. 

County police have charged Furman, who has an extensive criminal record, with two counts of aggravated assault, one count of reckless endangerment and one count of unlawful restraint in connection with last week's hotel stabbing. 

 County police said Furman followed a 27-year-old East Pittsburgh woman onto an elevator at the Hyatt on the . After engaging her in small talk, he pushed her against the wall of the elevator, lifted her leg and stabbed her with a knife in her hamstring. The woman was treated at Heritage Valley Sewickley Hospital for the single-puncture wound and released that night. 

The woman was staying at the hotel with her husband. The two had been married the previous weekend and left on their honeymoon to Florida one day after the attack. 

County police said a local woman identified Furman as the man involved in the hotel stabbing after seeing in news reports last week. 

The woman, who police did not identify, told police that Furman had approached her at the Hyatt in January, gave her his phone number and identified himself as "Mike." Police traced that phone number to Furman's West Virginia relatives. 

County police Lt. Jeff Korczyk said last week that Furman has been convicted in the past on charges of burglary and theft.