2 arrested in SWAT standoff, 23-year-old stabbed at Warner Robins home

A man who allegedly stabbed a 23-year-old barricaded himself in a Warner Robins home during an hours-long SWAT standoff Thursday night, according to the Warner Robins Police Department.

Two suspects and two children were in the home as officers tried to get them out for over four hours, a news release from the police department said.

The incident started when officers responded to a home around 10:30 p.m. Thursday in the 500 block of King Richard Drive regarding someone stabbed with a knife, police said. The neighborhood sits off Carl Vinson Parkway.

They found a 23-year-old woman with a “stab wound to the abdomen” at the scene, officers said. She was taken to a hospital and medical staff said she was in “stable condition,” according to the WRPD.

But Joshua Lamar Phillips, a 28-year-old man who allegedly stabbed her, wouldn’t exit the home when police arrived, the WRPD said. Two kids and another 23-year-old also remained in the home. No one was injured except the survivor of the stabbing, Lt. Patrick Allen told The Telegraph.

The WRPD SWAT and Crisis Negotiation Team used “negotiating tactics” for four hours “to de-escalate the situation” until around 3 a.m. Friday, officers said.

Then Phillips was arrested “with incident,” which means police believe he put up a struggle to arrest him, the news release said.

He was charged with aggravated assault and obstruction of officers, and served with already-existing arrest warrants, Allen said. Houston County issued the warrants on two counts of third-degree cruelty to children and violating probation, according to a log of detainees at the Houston County Jail.

The 23-year-old old woman who remained in the home with Phillips was charged with hindering apprehension and two counts of second-degree cruelty to a child, according to the WRPD.

Phillips and the 23-year-old woman who survived the stabbing were “friends/acquaintances,” police said.

The incident was under investigation as aggravated assault, the news release said. Anyone with tips was urged to call the police department at 478-302-5378, or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.

Officers did not immediately release other information regarding the circumstances of the stabbing.

This story may be updated as more information becomes available.

This story was originally published January 9, 2026 at 11:15 AM.