BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) - A Kentucky man who told police he was “moved by the message” before stabbing his father at a church service has pleaded guilty but mentally ill.
The Bowling Green Daily News reports (https://bit.ly/2kHSDNP) 21-year-old Ethan Andrew Buckley entered the plea to a first-degree assault charge on Monday.
Buckley was arrested in August 2016 after police found his father, David Buckley, with neck wounds at a Baptist church in Bowling Green, about 70 miles north of Nashville, Tennessee.
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Police said Ethan Buckley told officers he’d had thoughts of killing his father and that he stabbed David Buckley with a pocket knife.
Ethan Buckley accepted an offer from prosecutors recommending a 10-year prison sentence. His sentencing is scheduled March 28.
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Information from: Daily News, https://www.bgdailynews.com
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