Judge Rules Havre Boy to be Tried as Adult for Stabbings

HAVRE — A state judge has ruled a 17-year-old Havre boy should be tried as an adult in a knife attack on three Montana State University-Northern students in an apartment in Havre.

KOJM-AM reports District Judge Dan Boucher made his decision after a transfer hearing Monday.

Justice Brown appeared via video from the Cascade County Juvenile Detention Center. His trial was set for Nov. 16, one day after he turns 18.

Brown has pleaded not guilty to three counts of attempted deliberate homicide and one count of aggravated burglary for the May 2 stabbings that critically injured Sam Mix and Taylor Woolman and injured Alicia Schneid, who was able to escape and call for help.

Mix was stabbed more than three dozen times, Woolman more than 20 times, including one that pierced her brain. Schneid was stabbed seven times.

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