River Falls, WI (The Weekly Vice) – Nicholas Leigh Tretter, a 29-year-old River Falls man was jailed after he allegedly stabbed a man in Minneapolis on Christmas to “see what it felt like."
According to Hennepin County police, Tretter followed a man off a transit bus, ran up and started stabbing him from behind.
The victim, who was on his way to a friend’s house, fell on the sidewalk and Tretter continued stabbing until the man’s friend came outside and started yelling for help.
The victim was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center where he received treatment for stab wounds on his back and side, defensive cuts and scrapes, and a 4 to 6 inch long cut on the left side of his neck. He was later released.
Tretter walked into Washington County Jail and told the staff members that he had stabbed a man in Minneapolis a night earlier. He was taken into custody.
According to family members, Tretter has a history of mental illness and becomes violent when he refuses to take his medication.
Tretter was booked into Washington County Jail and charged with second degree assault. He is being held in lieu of $50,000 bail.
The Weekly Vice Opinion.
If he wanted to see what it felt like so much why he didn’t just stab himself? Why does his excuse sound so familiar? Likely because we reported on a similar incident back in November.
Mandi Milenko
The Weekly Vice
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4 comments:
This guy just looks psycho!
I think rather than wasting tax dollars, why not allow the guys friends and the victim to return the stabbings and let his friends call for help. Oh and by the way the victim determines when and were like the perp did.
he is off his meds but he realized he did something wrong by turning himself in....sounds like a Law & Order episode
What a winner
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