A Boyle County man pleaded guilty to murder in the stabbing death of his own grandfather.
According to the Advocate Messenger, Charles Vanhook’s guilty plea was taken in exchange for a recommended 20-year sentence, the minimum allowed for a murder conviction under Kentucky law.
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38-year-old Vanhook stabbed Harold Long several times at his home in Oct. 2012, police say. A neighbor told LEX 18 the 88-year-old man knocked on his door, barely conscious and bleeding from the neck. Long lived for three months before he died from those injuries.
Vanhook was originally charged with first-degree assault for stabbing his grandfather. But after an autopsy showed Long died from injuries stemming from the stabbing, the charge against the grandson was upgraded to murder. It was originally thought the elderly man died from complications from various pre-existing medical conditions.
Vanhook is a diagnosed schizophrenic and has been hospitalized more then 60 times. His defense attorney told the Danville paper he was off his medication at the time of the stabbing.
