Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Whitley County Man Faces Attempted Murder
- {Kentucky}...Whitley County Deputies have arrested 40 year old James Fields on several charges, including two counts of attempted murder. Police say he attacked two people with a machete. Fields says it was an accident. He says he jokingly threatened his brother, his brother's girlfriend, and his own girlfriend with the machete during a drunken argument over the weekend, but his brother, Adam Anderson, says he wasn't laughing. Adam Anderson, says he went towards his brother, trying to take the machete away from him, but suffered a cut to his nose, before falling to his knees and blacking out. Anderson's girlfriend Sandra Shelton was also cut in the arm when she tried to take the machete from Fields. Whitley County Sheriff Colan Harrell says, "When someone injures two people with a machete, that's not an accident." Fields, remains in the Whitley County Jail without bond. He's scheduled to be in court next week.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 11:45 PM 
