A Wasatch County father was forced to shoot his adult son in self-defense after being stabbed multiple times, according to police. Family members say the son was having a mental health crisis.
MIDWAY, Wasatch County — Police say a father shot his adult son in self-defense after being stabbed multiple times at a cabin near Midway a week ago. Family members say the son was experiencing a mental health crisis.Warick Tremayne Daugaard, 25, on Aug. 7 at the Swiss Mountain Estates, a cabin area west of Midway near Swiss Alpine Road and Tanner Lane.
Despite being shot, investigators say "preliminary indications also suggest that Warick succumbed to a self-inflicted wound caused by an edged weapon." Deputies pronounced the 25-year-old dead at the scene and the father was taken by medical helicopter to an area hospital in critical condition but later was said to be "stable.", Aubreay Powers, she says her nephew "was overcome by the mental illness he had, schizophrenia," and stabbed his father several times in the neck.
Court records state Daugaard was arrested, charged and convicted for a similar incident of threatening a family member earlier this year. In that case, Daugaard's mental health was also brought into question.
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