Crime & Safety
Alleged Hallucinating Road Rage Stabber Serves 240 Days
He was detoxing from pain medication and hallucinating when he crashed into a car head-on and stabbed the driver and passenger before stabbing his own neck with a cordless drill.
A man who crashed a car and stabbed two other motorists and himself with a cordless screwdriver in a fit of delirium was sentenced to 240 days.
Garrie Tyler Aspengren, 38, was ordered to wear an ankle bracelet for monitoring during a hearing on Wednesday at the in French Valley.
Aspengren was charged with three counts of assault with a deadly weapon to produce great bodily injury. He struck a deal with the District Attorney, and one of the counts was dropped, according to court records.
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The man was accused of crashing head-on into a car on Safflower Street in French Valley, jumping out and stabbing the driver and passenger with a cordless drill before stabbing himself in the neck, according to a police official.
The man was detoxifying from pain medication and was hallucinating, the official said. To read about what happened, .
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