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A Williamsburg-area teenager who for no apparent reason allegedly stabbed a hospice nurse visiting his home last April will be tried for attempted murder and two counts of aggravated assault in adult criminal court, according to a decision late last week by Blair County President Judge Elizabeth A. Doyle.
On Jan. 5, the judge presided over a hearing in which a clinical psychologist from Allentown and a forensic psychiatrist from Philadelphia presented opposing views as to whether 16-year-old Michael Douglas Watson of Stone Row Drive could be rehabilitated by the time he becomes 21, the age at which he would no longer be under the supervision of the
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HOLLIDAYSBURG A registered nurse for UPMC’s Family Hospice and Palliative Care agency held a courtroom spellbound Tuesday as she related how she survived a brutal knife attack upon visiting the home of one of her patients.
For seemingly no reason, the patient’s 15-year-old grandson, identified as Michael Douglas Watson of Stone Row Drive near Williamsburg, while escorting her out of his grandfather’s home, struck her on the back as she was about to enter her car.
She turned and looked at him and saw a knife.
He struck her in the abdomen with the knife also described as a sword during the lengthy hearing before Blair County President Judge Elizabeth Doyle.