A man accused of attacking his neighbor with a hatchet in Bourbon County once faced a murder charge as a teenager in Florida.
A Pensacola jury acquitted Daniel Carter, 25, nearly a decade ago, when he was just 15-years old. He was charged with stabbing his uncle to death with a knife, but the jury found he did it in self defense.
Chris Mitchell’s wife says she and her husband let Carter stay in a camper trailer on their property because he was down on his luck. She says the altercation started when Mitchell confronted Carter at the camper and accused him of stealing items from their home. She says Carter pointed a shotgun at her husband and then attacked with the hatchet about an hour later.
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“He brought the hatchet up to his face, and dropped it like a rock,” Rose Mitchell said.
The mother of six says Chris Mitchell’s entire forehead was split open by the hatchet.
He was airlifted to UK Hospital. Mitchell was listed in critical condition at last check.
Carter says Mitchell attacked him first.
“He comes down like a big gorilla with his shirt off,” Carter said.
He expressed regrets for his actions.
“I wish I hadn’t hit him in the head. I wish I had hit him in the legs or something, but you don’t have time to think when you have a grown man coming at you,” he said.
Carter ran when police showed up. He says he was just scared.
Police charged Carter with assault, fleeing from police and resisting arrest.
Rose Mitchell says she just found out about the Carter’s previous murder charge Tuesday.
“Years now it’s another thing? You’re going to take things out cause of what you’re going through on my husband?” she asked.
According to a website set up relating to Carter’s defense in the Florida trial, his uncle, a Kung-fu Black belt bodybuilder in a rage from steroids drugs and alcohol, attacked Carter while he was asleep in his room. He stabbed his uncle in the neck during the altercation, killing him. According to the website, Carter was charged as an adult and spent nine months in an adult jail “where his emotional and mental condition deteriorated.”
