After two are stabbed, man charged with attempted murder
GUILDERLAND —After two people were stabbed at the Brandywine Apartments on Sunday, a 26-year-old man, Kahlee D. Hackworth, has been charged with second-degree attempted murder, according to Guilderland Police Captain Eric Batchelder.
Hackworth, who lived at 1804 Brandywine, Batchelder said, was also charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, and two counts of second-degree assault.
“All the people involved live at Brandywine,” the captain said.
Hackworth was arraigned in Guilderland Town Court on Sunday and remanded to Albany County’s jail without bail, Batchelder said.
Batchelder told The Enterprise that events unfolded this way:
Police received a call at 10:12 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 20, from someone in the Brandywine Apartments complex off of Route 155 in Guilderland.
Police found two victims, residents of Brandywine, outside the building with what “appeared to be consistent with stab wounds”: Monique Beckett, 52, and a 13-year-old whose name and gender are not being released by police because of age.
The victims were “conscious and alert” when police arrived and were transported to Albany Medical Center Hospital where they remain in stable condition, Batchelder told The Enterprise on Monday morning.
Police set up a perimeter at the scene on Sunday and evacuated adjacent apartments. The suspect remained in the apartment at 1804 Brandywine. “We attempted to make contact and were unsuccessful,” said Batchelder.
The New York State Police Emergency Response Team was on the scene with its robot. “For the safety of everyone, we sent in the robot,” said Batchelder. “The robot found him,” he said of Hackworth. “The team went in and apprehended him once it was determined to be safe.”
“They’re pretty neat,” Batchelder said of robots, noting police work now frequently involves the use of drones, robots, and other artificial intelligence.
Batchelder said there should now be “no other concerns for safety” in the neighborhood.
He declined to answer other questions, such as motive, since he explained, “This is still an open investigation.”
The arrest report filed by the Guilderland Police, obtained by The Enterprise, described the Aug. 20 incident as a “domestic dispute,” and described Hackworth as a 5 foot, 8 inch, 150-pound Black man who had a high school education and is unemployed and single.
The report went on to say that Hackworth did “recklessly engage in conduct evincing a depraved indifference to human life, which created a grave risk of death to another person, by using a knife to repeatedly stab and cut the victim, his mother, resulting in a serious stab wound to the back of her neck, a stab wound to her right shoulder, two stab wounds to her left back shoulder, and a five-inch laceration to the base of her neck.”
The arrest report said further that Hackworth “did also intentionally, knowingly, and unlawfully” use a knife to cut his 13-year-old brother, the second victim, “in the chin, right index finger, and stab him between his shoulder blades during the same incident.”