THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, August 27, 1996 TAG: 9608270326
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B7 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: HAMPTON LENGTH: 29 lines
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 older 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 Williams home and followed a trail of blood from the front door 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.
KEYWORDS: MURDER STABBING by CNB