2 injured in knife attack
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January 9, 2011, Sunday
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A man who claimed he was seeking the "portal to hell" repeatedly stabbed two women early on Friday in Union, New Jersey, after they noticed misplaced items in their backyard and opened the door to a shed where he was hiding, US law enforcement officials said.
A neighbor jumped a fence after hearing the women scream and hit their assailant, 25-year-old Morgan Mesz, in the head with a baseball bat, ending the attacks, authorities said. Both women were in critical condition at University Hospital in Newark as of Friday night.
Mesz was charged with three counts of attempted murder and was being held on US$1.5 million bail.
The stabbings occurred at around 6am after the two women, ages 50 and 53, let their dog outside. They noticed contents of their shed strewn across the lawn, according to the Union County prosecutor's office. The shed door, though, was closed.
Mesz, armed with a knife and hatchet, pounced on the pair after one woman opened the shed door, authorities said.
Neighbor Hernan Agudelo, 33, heard the attack and subdued Mesz. Agudelo suffered several stab wounds and was treated at a hospital and released on Friday, the prosecutor's office said.
A neighbor jumped a fence after hearing the women scream and hit their assailant, 25-year-old Morgan Mesz, in the head with a baseball bat, ending the attacks, authorities said. Both women were in critical condition at University Hospital in Newark as of Friday night.
Mesz was charged with three counts of attempted murder and was being held on US$1.5 million bail.
The stabbings occurred at around 6am after the two women, ages 50 and 53, let their dog outside. They noticed contents of their shed strewn across the lawn, according to the Union County prosecutor's office. The shed door, though, was closed.
Mesz, armed with a knife and hatchet, pounced on the pair after one woman opened the shed door, authorities said.
Neighbor Hernan Agudelo, 33, heard the attack and subdued Mesz. Agudelo suffered several stab wounds and was treated at a hospital and released on Friday, the prosecutor's office said.
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