Accused stabber to be tried as adult

Justice Brown, 17, who is facing a jury trial in November for at attack of three college students, will now be tried as an adult.

"Based on the severity of the crime, I feel that it's very appropriate and I'm glad that the legal system is moving in that direction, especially since he's so close to being 18," wrote Alicia Schneid, one of the victims of the attack of which Brown is accused of committing.

Brown pleaded not guilty to three counts of attempted deliberate homicide and one count of attempted burglary in May.

May 2, around 4:30 a.m., officers received a call from 11th Street West about a young woman who had been stabbed in an apartment complex. When they arrived on the scene, they discovered two more people in the apartment who had been stabbed multiple times. One of the three victims was able to get away to another apartment in the complex to have her neighbor call the Havre Police Department.

Sam Mix, 19, Taylor Woolman, 20 and Schneid, 19, were stabbed a total of 82 times. Woolman received a wound in her brain and is still in physical therapy. She was on the volleyball team for Montana State University-Northern, Mix was a receiver for the football team and Schneid was also a Northern student.

As the Havre police were investigating the scene, they received another call around 6 a.m. about a disturbance. When they arrived, they found other officers had a person in their squad car that fit the description of the assailant. He was also covered in blood.

The person was identified as Brown, and he was arrested as a suspect of the attack, as well as the state district warrant.

When Brown was questioned by police the night of the event, he told them he "would never do something like that," the investigation report from officers reads.

"He's a danger to himself and to the community and has a record before this attack even happened," Schneid wrote this morning. "I went to the hearing yesterday in hope that he would see me, and see that he didn't win and that I did. When you stab someone multiple times, you're not just trying to hurt them, you're trying to kill them."

Brown has a jury trial November 16 at 8:30 a.m. in Hill County District Court.