Florida Man Tries to Kill Family ‘to Get ‘Em up to Heaven’

A 73-year-old Florida man is behind bars after he tried to tried to kill his family “to get ’em up to heaven.”

Allison Hatton has been charged with one count of attempted murder, one count of aggravated battery on a person over 65, and one count of assault with the intent to commit a felony,” the Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

The sheriff’s office said that Hatton woke up a 69-year-old relative  by “repeatedly stabbing her in the neck with a kitchen knife.” He was interrupted by another relative, who took the knife away from him.

But Hatton “retrieved a second knife and threatened to kill the second adult relative if she didn’t allow him to slay his initial victim.”

Then, the sheriff’s office said, Hatton stabbed himself in the throat.

When deputies arrived, Hatton told them he intended to kill both women, his dog, and then himself.

Hatton and the stabbing victim were taken to a hospital for treatment, and Hatton was arrested after his release from the hospital.

According to Law&Crime, the 69-year-old victim was Hatton’s wife, and the other adult was their 42-year-old daughter, who called 911 and said that her father had stabbed her mother, who was “bleeding profusely.”

The daughter told police that she awaked “by hearing her mother scream ‘stop’ and ‘don’t do it.'”

“[The daughter] said she entered the living room where her mother was seated in her chair, where she typically sleeps,” an affidavit said. “[The daughter] said she saw her father standing over her mother with a knife in his hand. According to [the daughter], she managed to get the knife away from Mr. Hatton.”

The daughter further told investigators that her father had been refusing to eat of late, not because there was anything wrong with him but because “he just didn’t want to eat.” He had been receiving nutrients through a feeding tube, she said. She also said that her father “has been talking to God out loud the last several days, in which he purportedly asked Him, ‘if this isn’t right, tell me.'”

The daughter said she “didn’t know to what [her dad] was referring to until today.”

Hatton allegedly told detectives that “he was tired of everyone suffering and intended to kill his entire family, including the dog.”

He is being held without bond and is due in court on Friday.

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[Featured image: Allison Hatton/Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office]