Spoons Get in Your Eyes

Apparently this uncle didn't cry "uncle!" in time to stop his spoon-wielding nephew. Now he'll never cry again.

MOBILE, Alabama -- A judge denied bail today for a Prichard man accused of gouging out his uncle’s eyeballs with a spoon.

Timayo Knight, 31, appeared briefly before District Judge Michael McMaken, who refused to set a bail.

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Prichard police were called to the 300 block of Bronner Street on Monday evening and found 79-year-old Bonnie Pogue bleeding from his face. Investigators later found Pogue’s eyeballs in a trashcan and a bloody spoon on a kitchen counter, according to police, and Knight was still inside the house.

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Assistant District Attorney Jo Beth Murphree said Knight lived at the house with his uncle, and there was no evidence that Knight was using illegal drugs at the time.

The Captain thinks it's fair to infer that if Mr. Knight had been using illegal drugs at the time, this heinous crime could have been prevented.

[AL.com]