A 26-year-old Mesa man The brothers were ordered at accused of stabbing his gunpoint to stop their stepfather 50 times with a attacks. Swiss army knife was arrested After Merrell dropped the Monday on charges of knife he was taken into attempted murder and custody. He told deputies, aggravated assault with a "My brother told me I stabbed deadly weapon, police said. him, if I did that, I hope I Maricopa County Sheriff's killed him." deputies were dispatched to The father was airlifted to the 10000 block of East Butte Scottsdale Osborne Hospital Street in Mesa around 10p.m., where he remains in critical after a man called 911 condition with over 50 stab claiming his father was being wounds to his head, neck and stabbed. arms, deputies said. When deputies arrived they Merrell's brother later told saw that the front door was investigators that he saw his open and could hear screams brother stab his father and coming from the inside, had picked up the stick in authorities said. hopes of stopping the attack. Inside, deputies witnessed Deputies said Merrell Blake Alexander Merrell stab admitted that he stabbed his his stepfather while he was stepfather because he is mean on top of him on the kitchen to the family. floor. When Merrell learned that his Standing next to Merrell was stepfather was not dead he his brother, who was striking told deputies, "just to take him with a stick telling him him to jail, because if he is to "get off from his father," set free he will finish the deputies said. job."
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