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Newtown School Schooting

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Police: Suspect Said She Wished She Had Been Connecticut School Shooter

Theresa Marie Navratil is charged with third-degree assault and making terroristic threats. Police say she stabbed a man in the hand and then announced that she wished she had been the man who killed 26 people at a Connecticut elementary school.

  A Burnsville woman has been charged with stabbing a man through the hand, then telling police officers that she wished she had been the man who killed 26 people at a Connecticut school last week because she “understood” him. Theresa Marie Navratil, 52, is charged with two felonies: third-degree assault resulting in substantial bodily harm and making terroristic threats, each of which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Navratil is also charged with two misdemeanor counts of domestic assault, for which the maximum penalty is 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine. Police were called to Navratil’s apartment in the 2100 block of Cliff Road just before midnight Dec. 15 after the victim reported that he had been …

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