Posted on 09/06/2005 8:12:17 AM PDT by Gritty
A man listed on the Department of Homeland Security's terrorist watch list is accused of stabbing his common-law wife Monday, fleeing the scene with their 10-month-old baby and later slitting the baby's throat before cutting his own throat.
The baby girl was listed in critical condition Monday night at Mission Hospitals, said a hospital spokesman. Her father, Mohammed Al-Hilo, 22, was listed in serious condition. No condition report on victim Batrina Lynn McKinney was available Monday night from Pardee Hospital.
Al-Hilo is an Iraqi alien listed on the Terror Watch List, Henderson County Sheriff's Department Detective Walt Harper said. His address was listed as 67 Hope Creek Lane, Apartment 4, in the Barker Heights community near Jackson Park.
"We knew he was here," Harper said. "The FBI would contact local lawenforcement every time we had dealings with him."
"At 5:44 p.m. Monday, the Hendersonville Police Department received a phone call from a young child who said her daddy had just killed her mommy," said Police Chief Donnie R. Parks.
The first officers on the scene found an adult female lying on her porch at 308 Rose St. in Hendersonville with multiple cuts and stab wounds about her face, neck and extremities, Parks said.
The wounds appeared to be serious and possibly life threatening, he said. McKinney, who was born in 1981, was transported by the Henderson County Emergency Medical Services to Pardee Hospital.
Witnesses at the scene told officers that McKinney came home and was unloading groceries when the assault occurred. Al-Hilo was waiting on McKinney at the house, the witnesses said.
There was a domestic violence protection order prohibiting Al-Hilo from being around the victim, Parks confirmed.
The couple's 10-month-old baby was still in McKinney's 1990s brown Chevrolet Astro Van when Al-Hilo fled the scene in the vehicle, Parks said.
A deputy with the Henderson County Sheriff's Department spotted the van headed toward N.C. 191, Harper said.
Sheriff's Department officers waited at the N.C. 280/191 intersection while other officers were in pursuit of the van down N.C. 191 from Hendersonville toward Asheville.
As deputies closed in on the van from both directions, Al-Hilo turned into the parking lot of the Van Wingerden Greenhouse Co.
"He refused to obey the officers' commands to step out of the vehicle," Harper said. "The officers saw him inside the vehicle attempting to do something in the back seat."
When officers approached the van, they saw that the baby's throat had been slit and Al-Hilo also had a slit throat, Harper said.
Medical emergency helicopters from Mission Hospitals in Asheville airlifted the baby and the suspect from the scene.
Sheriff's Department crime scene technicians and detectives were on the scene Monday until dark.
On the asphalt was a brightly colored fleece baby blanket that depicted a young girl dancing on the sand wearing a party hat, and it was stained with blood. It was a stark reminder of the tragedy that had just unfolded.
The Hendersonville Police Department will be charging Al-Hilo with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury, as well as other charges, Parks said. The Henderson County Sheriff's Department will charge the suspect with similar charges for the assault committed against the baby, he said.
The incident is still under investigation, Parks said.
Unthinkable
I hope the mother and the baby survive.
As for the POS, well, Henderson County is up in the mountains, and George Bush and Richard Burr won the county with 65% and 61% of the votes, respectively. He ain't goin' nowhere anytime soon.
Well, it was only a baby GIRL -- everyone knows that girls are the property of Islamists to do with what they please.
/disgusting, spit in the general direction of NOW sarcasm
NOTHING!!!
What the H&!! does DHS have to do with toys?????
I think that once again the fedgov has gotten yet ANOTHER out of control agency (shades of fbi/batf)
I heard this and I thought of all the things you mentioned in addition to wanting to do ugly things to this monster. I have three little girls I love dearly. I'm not really up on what DHS is doing but if we have to live with these monsters I hope they are doing what 'god forbid' the french are doing. Check this one out.
http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19403
{personally i would toss them all(and I lived with an Iranian in college for 2 years. I liked him very much at the time-now I wonder about him. Hard to tell where people's loyalties lie. Oh well we are up to our armpits in people who could care less about America.)}
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