HUTCHINSON, Kan. – A 35-year-old man who faces two counts of aggravated assault and criminal threat was before Judge Trish Rose Wednesday morning for a status hearing.
The defense attorney for Alonzo Moore is apparently trying to decide if they will use a mental disease or defect at trial. Not sure of what the defense will do, the judge set another hearing for Friday morning to give the defense time to decide.
In one incident, Moore allegedly threatened a 17-year-old female with a knife in the 200 block of East 4th at a local Burger King.
The victim testified that she had just gotten off work and a friend was having car trouble so she went to help. Moore was allegedly bugging her friend and the victim asked him to leave. He allegedly refused and then pulled a knife, waving it in the air toward the victim.
Another man testified that he was there helping his sister with her car and also felt threatened by Moore, so much so, that he got back in his truck, locked the door and called 911.
He testified at the preliminary hearing that Moore kept asking, “do we have a problem here?” while holding the knife. He says he told the defendant he had a problem with him having that knife. He says he felt uneasy or uncomfortable at that point and that’s why he went and got in his truck.
Another witness told the court that Moore was approaching the victim holding the knife and waving it in a stabbing motion.
Apparently an hour earlier, Moore also threatened a worker at a local motel. That is why the state added an additional charge of criminal threat after that.
Moore is currently serving time on two counts of battery of a law enforcement officer for a case that goes back to May of 2012. He has other convictions of aggravated assault, two counts of theft and flee and elude for cases also going back to 2012.