Today’s Medieval-Style Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Police haven’t determined what drove a man to allegedly attack his bedridden sister-in-law with a medieval-style battle ax and then go on a rampage outside a Las Vegas home, hacking a 4-month-old baby to death and critically wounding the child’s mother. Harold E. Montague, 33, told investigators he remembered nothing about the attack, and police said he didn’t know the woman or the boy he is accused of hacking with the blade of an ax before noon Thursday, February 1, 2010 on a sunny street east of Las Vegas Boulevard. Police were awaiting blood test results determining whether Montague may have been under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Roberts said he admitted smoking marijuana but didn’t say whether he had taken other medications or alcohol. Montague is accused of stabbing his 36-year-old mentally and physically disabled sister-in-law, Monica O’Dazier, more than 20 times with the pointed end of a ceremonial ax before bursting out of his home into the street. Montague swapped one weapon for another one like it before going outside. A neighbor said she couldn’t believe what she was seeing as Montague attacked the baby and the child’s mother. “I told him to stop. He just reared up and looked at me,” said Teresa Garner, a 52-year-old former hotel worker who said she doesn’t remember Montague saying a word before he returned to swinging the menacing-looking weapon like a golf club. Garner called 911 and Montague retreated back inside his rented white cinderblock home across the street. As police arrived, Montague emerged empty-handed, taunting officers with profanity and trying to wrestle a shotgun from the hands of an officer, according to a police report. Police shocked him with a Taser to help subdue him. Garner said she wanted to help the baby in the overturned stroller next to a widening pool of blood near the end of her driveway. She said she also tried to keep the severely wounded and disfigured mother from trying to stand. “I’m surprised she lived,” Garner said of the woman, identified by police as Sandra Lisset Castro, 28. Her whole face was gone. She had a big gaping wound on the top of her head. She kept saying, ‘Help my baby! help my baby!’ Garner said it was obvious the child was already dead. The Clark County coroner reported that 4-month-old Damien Avila-Castro died of multiple head wounds. Police said Castro was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in very critical condition.
Culled from: The Associated Press
Generously submitted by: Aimee
It just goes to show how tenuous life really is. One moment, you’re pushing your baby down the street, and the next minute you’re attacked by a guy with an axe. Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time!