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Published: 2011-08-24 09:28:40
Updated: 2011-08-24 09:28:40

Posted: August 24, 2011

Greenville man charged with trying to kill mother

Eltwoyne Terrell Carter

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Greenville, N.C. — A Greenville man faces charges that he tried to kill his mother Tuesday evening, a little more than a year after he finished a prison sentence on similar charges.

Police said that Eltwoyne Terrell Carter, 27, stabbed his mother near 458 Burrington Road around 7:20 p.m. His mother's injuries were believed to be non-life-threatening, and she was taken to a local hospital.

Investigators didn't comment on a motive in the stabbing.

Carter was arrested early Wednesday and charged with attempted first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. He was placed in the Pitt County Detention Center.

Carter finished a 4½-year prison sentence in April 2010 for convictions for assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, communicating threats and two counts of possession of a firearm by a felon, according to state Department of Correction records.

He also served a total of 2½ years for a conviction for assault inflicting serious injury in 1999 and common-law robbery in 2002.

  • Web Editor: Anne Johnson
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He be good to go when he gets out next time
Legally Here
August 29, 2011 3:54 p.m.
Third strike or three times the charm? Someone should inflict serious injury on this "child"...and if I was his Mom, that would be me doing the inflicting!!!!
moes238
August 25, 2011 10:53 a.m.
That poor woman.

I can't imagine someone doing that to their mother, either of their parents actually.

Praying justice does the right thing this time. With this guy's record, he should never have been out of prison.
RB aka Spirit Warrior Woman
August 24, 2011 6:33 p.m.
rednek....I wonder why they keep giving this young man chance after chance to kill his mother. He tried once; and a prison sentencing didn't deter him. Now he his tried again. What will it take to convince the justice system that this man is very dangerous? Obviously, he has a lot of deep setted problems, to even try to kill his own mother. (He is 'very much' old enough to know better, and to get help on his own.)Don't wait until he actually gets a murder charge.....stop him now.

I know that's her son, and obviously she loves him; but she also needs to get some professional help. Because she 'is' going to let him back into her life, and this time she might not be so lucky to live through another attack from him.
Click to view my profile hellorhighwaters
August 24, 2011 6:33 p.m.
Why is this man still living, breathing, and walking the streets? I know he is in jail now, but the courts will slap him on the wrist and let him out AGAIN. Next time he might kill his mother. If he is determined to be guilty of this crime the second time, EXECUTE him and solve the problem.
rednek
August 24, 2011 6:17 p.m.
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