© Muscogee County JailJayvon Hatchett allegedly stabbed a white AutoZone employee because he felt "the need to find a white male to kill"
Jayvon Hatchett allegedly stabbed the worker seven times in the terrifying rampage in Georgia.
He has been charged with aggravated assault and possession of a weapon during the commission of a crime.
The 19-year-old allegedly entered the automotive parts shop near his home in Columbus on August 25 and asked the AutoZone employee for a thermostat.
But when the worker told him they were out and turned to walk away, Hatchett stabbed him multiple times, cops said.
Hatchett appeared before Judge Julius Hunter for his arraignment on Thursday in court, where Columbus Police Sgt R.S. Mills testified about the alleged attack.
When Hatchett was asked about his motive for the stabbing, he said he was angered by Facebook videos of police brutality against black people around the US and targeted the man because he was white, Mills claimed.
"Mr Hatchett told me that he had been watching Facebook videos of police shootings in other parts of the country and that he felt the need to find a white male to kill," Mills told the court, as reported by WLTZ.
Hatchett smiled at officers when they came to arrest him at his home and he later confessed to stabbing the employee, Mills added.
Surveillance footage appears to show the assailant fleeing the store after the unprovoked attack.
The worker was rushed to the hospital in critical condition, and authorities said he's lucky to be alive.
Police were tipped off by the public after cops released images captured on surveillance cameras.
Three days before the stabbing, Hatchett had been freed on bond after being charged with criminal damage to property, the news station reported.
He was arrested six months ago for two felonies, including aggravated assault.
Judge Hunter declined to issue bond after the recent charges and ordered Hatchett to undergo a mental health evaluation.
The teen's case has been sent up to Superior Court.
Reader Comments
not your comment about six months ago.
But then again, that might make the black kids angry.
RC
$50 probably won't do it.
Not big on modern fiction, but there it was.
RC
I’ve only seen one wild bear in my life. I was riding my bike out in the woods in N. Central Florida and came around a corner where scurrying ahead of me was the largest raccoon I’ve ever seen.
As it scurried towards the palmetto scrub, I ran a field check: grey color & mask? No. Cinnamon brown. Didn’t run with a raccoon’s lope. Long bushy striped tail? No. It was stubby. It was a 25 lb bear cub! But, it was disappearing into the saw palmetto scrub, so I went chasing after it.
I’m happy to say that I have again learned to perambulate with braces and a walker.
Global Grrl: You ought to acquire a concealed firearm license, far less hassle and far more control over end result.
HFL: I don't generally do reruns, but had to rewatch that one! (By the time Robin got there, Bat man would have had his leg taken off at the thigh and the shark would have been in the ocean wolfing it down.)
RC
Someone who chases a bear cub deserves what they get as much as scumbags in Wisconsin deserved to be shot.
I once had a 9-10 foot sea lion pop up and look at me, eye to eye, while waiting for a wave while surfing in SoCal. SCARED THE DEATH OUT ME!
Now, critter related? Mostly sharks, all in Florida. I could easily pull up 20 scary shark events. One day, we saw more sharks than the rest of our lives together - probably tens of thousands in a few square miles. Looked like a bait tank.
15 foot hammerhead cleared out every surfer from the water (a first) in St. Augustine. I was chased by it - it wasn't trying to eat me, just get me out of its way. That one was more tan (beautiful fish) but it was the same size as this one: [Link] [Link]
Et al.
RC