ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, August 28, 1996 TAG: 9608280074
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
DATELINE: HAMPTON
SOURCE: Associated Press
A man was charged with stabbing his father to death and wounding another man three days after being released from Eastern State Hospital, police and family members said.
Nathaniel Williams III, 21, was charged Monday with the murder of Nathaniel Williams Jr., 47, and the malicious wounding of a man who had been visiting the elder Williams, said Hampton police Cpl. Jeff Walden.
Walden would not identify the injured man, who was in stable condition at Sentara Hampton General Hospital.
Police were sent to Nathaniel Williams Jr.'s home at 2:26 a.m. after emergency dispatchers received a call from a man who reported a fight. Moments later, a second caller said he was bleeding and needed an ambulance, according to a police affidavit.
Police recovered a bloody knife inside the house and followed a trail of blood to a neighbor's house. There they found Nathaniel Williams Jr., sprawled in bushes against the front of the house.
Meanwhile, an officer stopped the younger Williams walking alone along a nearby road. He noticed blood on the man's hands and clothing, the affidavit says.
``When asked if he was injured, Nathaniel Williams admitted he was uninjured but that he had stabbed his father,'' the detective wrote in the affidavit.
Tanya Williams, a daughter of the slain man, said her brother had been in and out of Eastern State Hospital for several years with a mental disorder. ``He went there for help and they let him out Friday,'' she said.
The victim's wife, Evelyn Williams, suffered a stroke about two weeks ago and was at Riverside Rehabilitation Institute when the stabbing occurred.
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