Harris
JENNINGS COUNTY — A probable cause affidavit has revealed additional details about the events leading up to a stabbing last week in Jennings County that resulted in two people being airlifted to an Indianapolis hospital for treatment.
Adrianna Harris, 18, is currently facing six felonies stemming from the incident, including two counts each of attempted murder, aggravated battery and intimidation, according to court records. She is being held at the Jennings County Jail without bond. A jury trial has been scheduled for Dec. 15.
The probable cause affidavit alleges that Jennings County Sheriff deputies were dispatched to a Benchmark Human Services facility at around 6 p.m. on Aug. 10 in response to a reported stabbing.
When deputies arrived on the scene, they found two males subduing the suspect, who was later identified as Harris, on the ground outside the facility. The deputies also observed a large kitchen knife covered in what appeared to be blood laying on the sidewalk.
The deputies were able to detain Harris with her hands behind her back using handcuffs. The two males told the deputies that the stabbing victims were inside the facility.
“Upon making entry, I observed a path of blood inside the residence at the front door that led all throughout the inside of the residence,” one of the deputies states in the affidavit.
The deputies found two injured females inside the residence, one with lacerations on both of her legs and another with lacerations on her left bicep and the left side of her back. The deputies applied tourniquets on the wounds.
A few hours later, Harris allegedly told a detective that she had just been transferred to the Benchmark Human Services a few days earlier after residing at a residential treatment facility in Lafayette with her younger sister for around two years.
The transfer to the Benchmark facility resulted in Harris being separated from her sister, which allegedly “was a significant source of emotional distress for her,” the affidavit states.
On the morning of the stabbing, Harris viewed a video of her younger sister on a television in her room and allegedly “got really upset and began throwing objects within the facility.”
She then allegedly grabbed a knife from the dishwasher and began chasing the other residents outside the facility, where she allegedly stabbed two females.
Harris allegedly told the detective that she had been planning the attack “for a while.”
After the stabbings, the other residents allegedly locked her out of the facility. Harris then allegedly climbed a fence in the backyard to get to the front of the house. Staff members attempted to restrain her until law enforcement arrived.
“When questioned about her intentions, Ms. Harris first advised she wanted to hurt them at first, then changed her answer to wanting to try and kill them,” the affidavit states. “…She advised, ‘I think they should be dead’ and … advised she would try and kill them again if she got out.”
During the interview with the detective, Harris allegedly disclosed a history of violent acts, including a prior stabbing at her family home in Anderson.
The case is currently pending in Jennings Circuit Court.
