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The Morning News from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 2

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The Morning Newsi
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Wilmington, Delaware
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ist editioh Tuesday, April 28, 1983 Tht News-Journal papers B3 Man accused of stabbing woman, her son while they slept went on in there. There was two other people in that trailer He came in here and was shouting and screaming he wasn't guilty and kept saying he was going to get the person who was. We had to hold him back 'til the cops came," she said. James Leyanna was arrested in 1978 and charged with the shooting death of a Harrington-area man. The man was shot in the head with a shotgun.

Leyanna was never prose-' cuted, and police said Monday night the charge was dropped when authorities determined that James Leyanna shot the man in bedroom where Wyatt and her son were sleeping. He said James Leyanna slashed the boy's neck and stabbed and slashed Wyatt. Forrester said there was another couple in the trailer, Wyatt's 21-r year-old sister, Teresa Wyatt, who' also lives there, and Terry L. Garris, 21, who was visiting. He said Teresa Wyatt and Garris went into the bedroom and pulled James Leyanna off Teresa's sister.

They summoned the police and an ambulance and tried to administer first aid until help arrived. James Leyanna went next door to his mother's, "I don't know what treated for stab wounds in her neck, back and chest. Her son is being treated for a neck wound in the same hospital. Both were in stable condition Monday night. James Leyanna and Debora Wyatt have lived together for the past five years, Leyanna's mother, Evelyn, said Monday night.

She said the couple has a 3-year-old daughter, who is under her care. Evelyn Leyanna said that for the past two to three months, the couple had been quarreling and fighting, and that her son has been hospitalized for problems with his nerves. She said both of them work for the Country Pride Foods Ltd. chicken processing plant in Milford, although her son's illness had kept him off the job until recently. Police said the couple had been quarreling because James Leyanna believed Wyatt had been seeing other men.

Evelyn Leyanna said, "She didn't care about his condition. She'd go off and stay out all night. She moved her people family in on him, even though he couldn't afford to keep them. She knew it was upsetting him," she said. Forrester said that about 11 Sunday night James Leyanna took out his folding knife and burst into the slashing their necks and stabbing them while they slept, state police said.

James E. Leyanna, 27, who lives in a trailer along Sussex 471 about three miles west of Georgetown, was charged Sunday night with two counts of attempted murder and sent to the Sussex Correctional Institution in Georgetown in lieu of $201,000 bail, police spokesman Lt. Joseph N. Forester said. The victims, identified by Forrester as Debora Wyatt, 22, and her son, Robert D.

Lankford were taken to the Nanticoke Memorial Hospital in Seaford. Wyatt is being nnnnrnrn uU uJ uJ By JERRY HAGER Staff reporter GEORGETOWN A man from near Georgetown was charged with trying to kill a woman who lives with him and her 5-year-old son by Defendant allegedly in on 'hustle' By JANE BROOKS Dover Bureau reporter DOVER Michael A. Williams knew when he drove two friends to the Sand Bar Liquor Store on Feb. 8, 1982, that they intended to "do a hustle," but he had no part in the robbery or murder that followed, a confessed participant in the crime testified Monday. Williams, a 23-year-old Dover man, is charged with first-degree robbery and conspiracy in the incident, which resulted in the shooting death of James E.

Feeley a Dover businessman. Feeley, a widower, had four children. Tyrone R. Baxter, 21, who is serv-. ing life in prison without benefit of parole after pleading guilty to first-degree murder, told the Superior Court jury hearing Williams' case: "He knew we was going to get some money.

He knew we was going to do something wrong. But Michael said he didn't want nothing to do with it." Williams drove Baxter and James W. Riley, 22, to the liquor store on White Oak Road, then parked around the corner near a friend's house while the pair committed the robbery and Riley shot Feeley when he resisted, Baxter said. He said Williams then drove the two to the bus station at State Road near Wilmington, where they took a bus to Baltimore. It was during the car ride north that Riley told Williams he'd shot Feeley "because the man kept buckin' and didn't want to give the money up," Baxter testified.

Baxter said he and Riley split the approximately $150 they took from the store and gave Williams $20 to buy gas. Baxter and Williams told similar stories during testimony at Riley's trial in December. Riley, formerly of Milford, was convicted of first-degree murder, robbery, conspiracy and weapons possession and sentenced to hang. He has maintained that he was in Philadelphia the day of the murder. The state rested its case against Williams Monday.

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