We have a plague of violent crazy people running loose in the country. Most mentally ill people are not violent and your chances of encountering a violent mentally ill person are slim (thousands of wildebeest, just a couple of dozen lions). However in a country with a population of 310 million if just one half of one percent of the population is violently crazy then that means that there are 1.5 million dangerous lunatics running loose in the country. That is roughly the same as the number of troops serving on active duty in all the Armed Forces. There are still a lot of them out there. So watch out who you turn your back on and don’t ask stupid questions.
Man accused of dragging woman with delivery bag strap that he wrapped around her neck.
The mental competency of a Fort Atkinson newspaper carrier charged with attempted first-degree homicide was questioned Wednesday after police say he dragged a woman with his delivery bag strap around her neck because she asked him a question he thought was stupid.
A hearing was ordered to determine if Trevor J. Ahrens, 22, is mentally competent to stand trial after he was charged with four felonies that also included strangulation and suffocation, substantial battery and false imprisonment.
At an initial appearance, Jefferson County Circuit Court Commissioner Jennifer Weber set bond for Ahrens at $50,000. He was being held in the Jefferson County Jail.
A criminal complaint said Ahrens attacked a 35-year-old woman who was picking up newspapers for her daughter’s paper route Monday at the offices of the Daily Jefferson County Union. She told police that her injuries from the attack included two bruised knees, a bruised shoulder, red or purple spots inside her eyes and eyelids caused by bleeding into the skin, and soreness in her ribs, stomach, head and neck.
A representative of the Jefferson County District Attorney’s office said it would not name the woman because she still feared for her life.
According to the complaint:
The woman told police she was standing near a heavyset man with dark hair in the newspaper building’s mail room when she asked him where she could find extra newspapers. The woman said she turned away from the man after he shook his head and then saw an orange delivery-bag strap come in front of her face.
The woman said she fell backward and then tried to claw at the man’s face as he stood above her. She said she thought she was going to die when the man dragged her out of the mail room and into a bathroom with the bag strap tightly wound around her neck.
She said she lost consciousness, woke up in the bathroom and then escaped to the Fort Aktinson Police Department. An officer said red marks were noticeable on the woman’s neck when she arrived and that she had difficulty breathing and speaking.
After the woman provided a description of the man to police, an officer said she contacted Daily Union paper-route supervisor Brenda Martin, who said Trevor Ahrens matched the description. An officer said she found Ahrens at his residence at a supervised living facility at 318 North Main St., and he admitted to dragging the woman “by the cable thing around her neck” to a bathroom because “I was gonna try to rape her, but she got away.”
The officer said Ahrens said he was attracted to the woman but was annoyed when she asked him where the newspapers were while she stood right next to them. Police said he called it a really stupid question.
Police said Ahrens told them he has bipolar disorder and attention-deficit/
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