GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A man has been charged with murder after police say he stabbed a woman to death in downtown Grand Rapids last week.

Michael Rose, 60, has been arraigned on charges of open murder and carrying a concealed weapon as a fourth-time habitual offender in the death of Lavonia Parham, the Grand Rapids Police Department said.

Parham, 54, was stabbed on the morning of Nov. 6 along S. Division Avenue in the Heartside neighborhood. On the day of the killing, GRPD Chief Eric Winstrom described it as a domestic situation. A witness told News 8 that a man and woman were seen arguing before the man stabbed her repeatedly and then turned the knife on himself.

Rose was taken to the hospital in critical condition after stabbing himself repeatedly, police said. He remained in the hospital Tuesday under the guard of Kent County sheriff’s deputies.

Online Michigan Department of Corrections records show Rose was on parole at the time of the stabbing following a conviction for a November 2021 arson out of Kent County. He also has previous convictions for an assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder in 2015 and an assault with a dangerous weapon in 1997 — both of those also out of Kent County.