70-year-old charged with attempted murder

WARREN — A 70-year-old city man is charged with attempted murder and felonious assault for reportedly stabbing a woman in the back in his apartment in September.

Reginald L. Williams Jr., of 700 Buckeye Street N.W., Apt. A717, was arrested Sept. 29 at his apartment after he called police at 4 a.m. to say he had tried to kill Barbara J. Thornton, 56, of Fourth Street Southwest.

When police arrived, they found Thornton face down on the floor with two stab wounds to the back from a pocket knife.

When officers asked Williams why he did it, he said, “I snapped.” Thornton told police she was getting ready to leave the apartment when Williams attacked her for no reason.

Thornton was treated at Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital for wounds that were not life threatening.

Also indicted were two people accused of bringing Vicodin into the Trumbull Correctional Institution, a state prison on Burnett Road in Leavittsburg, on Aug. 9, 2007.

Indicted on a charge of illegal conveyance of drugs of abuse onto grounds of a detention facility was David Nowery, 43, an inmate at the facility, and Clair E. Miller, 76, of 3500 Boston Ave. S.E., Warren.