The Middletown man accused of stabbing a woman at Bed Bath & Beyond was stone-faced and did not speak during an initial appearance in Judge Thomas F. Scully’s courtroom in Freehold on Friday afternoon.
Tyrik S. Haynes, 19, faces attempted murder and weapons charges after he allegedly stabbed a 29-year-old Keansburg woman 12 times while she was in the store shopping with her child.
Haynes’ attorney, public defender Patrice Hayslett, said in court that she would reserve the right to file a motion for a reduction in the $1,050,000 bail set for him.
The victim, identified by CBS News as Kerri Dalton, was in critical but stable condition on Friday, according to a press release issued by the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office.
Haynes did not enter a plea during the routine bail hearing.
The public gallery of the courtroom was filled primarily with members of the media.
Assistant Monmouth County Christopher Decker spoke in court on behalf of the prosecution but declined to comment to the media. Haylett also declined comment.
Yet when a Black man stabs a woman that did not die as a result__the bail is set at over $1 million. Tyrik S. Haynes age 19 has a long history of mental illness. The real problem is the Judge who released him after he set the cat on fire, when instead he should have been confined to a mental hospital fro evaluation. He, just like Lanza the Newtown school shoter should have been confined long ago to a mental institution ___ yet state governments no longer provide funding for State Mental Hospitals and they closed down the ownes that had. When we try to Spend Less and close down instituions like Marlboro Mental Hospital and then allow the mentally ill to roam the streets___incidents like this will happen over and over again.
I hold an AA in Social Science and a BA in Psychology; as such I am probably more qualified to address the mental health aspect of the above cited posting. Torturing defenseless animals is no doubt a sign of mental illness; I personally believe that every court room should have both a judge AND a psychiatrist to hear each case and after the evidence is presented by the prosecuting attorney, the two professionals should discuss it; is the suspect competent to stand trial, should he / she be placed in prison or a mental institution, should he/she be let out and on the streets among us? But having a Psychiatrist in every court room is expensive and confining dangerously mentally ill individuals to mental hospitals for life such as the individual who shot former president Reagan is prohibitively expensive. And finally we have the fact (which is obvious in some of the above comments) that the average individual is angry and wants not justice but revenge; an ‘eye for an eye’ mentality.