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WINSTON-SALEM — A local man who was found dead Tuesday night had been stabbed and then hidden under a bed, according to a search warrant.

Felicia Glass, the woman police charged with killing Rubin Flippin, told Winston-Salem police detectives that she and Flippin were arguing when she stabbed him in the chest three times, according to a search-warrant affidavit filed by Winston-Salem police

Police say they think that Flippin, 67, was killed last week, sometime between Thursday and Saturday, in a house at 106 Inverness St. They have charged Glass, 30, with first-degree murder.

When detectives interviewed Glass on Tuesday night, she told them she and Flippin had been drinking when he hit her with part of a broken table. Then they wrestled, she said.

Glass said that Flippin was reaching into a closet and she thought he was trying to get a gun, according to the affidavit, so she got a knife from the kitchen and stabbed him.

Glass said she then got latex gloves and a blanket, wrapped him in the blanket and put him under a mattress. She then cleaned up the blood, threw the knife and gloves into a trash bin and went to a neighbor's home.

Police searched the house Tuesday night and seized latex gloves, receipts, sections of carpet, a broken table, rags, clothes, knives, a crack pipe, a bong and Flippin's prescription medications.

Police have declined to comment on Glass' version of events. Last year, she accused Flippin of hitting her, but a judge found Flippin not guilty. Glass has a criminal record with various misdemeanor convictions, including assault on an officer, disorderly conduct and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Police searched the house earlier this week after they were called by Tracy Livingston, Flippin's daughter, and by Piedmont Dialysis Center when Flippin missed his appointment.

Officers did a quick search of the house but did not find the body and said they saw no evidence of an attack, according to the affidavit.

Officers left, then came back Tuesday and handed out fliers in the neighborhood. They found Glass at the Bethesda Center, the homeless shelter where she and Flippin met, and she readily talked to police, the affidavit said.

Livingston said that Flippin was a janitor at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., then worked for the city of Winston-Salem in the sanitation department. He was homeless for a brief period several years ago.