RURAL VALLEY — State police said Andrew Milton Berry, 48, is being held in Armstrong County Jail in lieu of $250,000 bond on charges of attempted homicide after another man was stabbed late Tuesday in his home along West Main Street. State police from Troop D, Kittanning, were dispatched at 10:30 p.m.
Tuesday to the home where a man had a stab wound to the chest area. Troopers said he was flown by medical helicopter to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh. No report was available about the victim’s condition Wednesday evening.
Through interviews with the victim and a witness, troopers determined that the victim was with Berry’s estranged wife when Berry entered the victim’s home unannounced and attacked the victim, stabbing him in the chest area. Names of the victim and the witness were not disclosed in the state police report. Berry was arraigned Wednesday morning before Rural Valley Magisterial District Judge Kevin Lee McCausland on felony counts of attempted criminal homicide, burglary and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a misdemeanor count of simple assault and a summary count of harassment.
He was jailed pending a preliminary hearing Tuesday, Aug. 27, at 1 p.m.
in McCausland’s courtroom..