Youth denies stabbing 3

Justice Lawrence Brown, 17, of Havre pleaded not guilty to three counts of attempted deliberate homicide and one count of attempted burglary Wednesday morning.

Brown had his arraignment in Hill County Judicial District court at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.

A transfer and omnibus hearing is scheduled for June 29 at 10:30 a.m.

Brown's council said they will request to have the defendant transported to Havre for the hearing. The transfer hearing is to determine whether or not he will be tried as an adult in court proceedings to come. An omnibus hearing is to determine what evidence may be used in the trial to come.

Brown is being held in Cascade County Juvenile Detention Center. He appeared in Hill County District Court this morning via video conference.

The three victims of the attack, Sam Mix, 19, Alicia Schneid, 19, and Taylor Woolman, 20, were all taken to Benefis Hospital in Great Falls and then airlifted to other hospitals. All three were Montana State University-Northern students.

Mix was taken to a hospital in Seattle and has since been released. Schneid was recently released from a Bozeman hospital, but Woolman is still being cared for in Billings and will soon be moved to a hospital in Denver for treatment.

Brown, in addition to the new charges, was also picked up on a state District Court warrant, which was for a felony charge of sexual intercourse without consent he got in 2014.

May 2, around 4:30 a.m., officer received a call from 11th Street West about a young woman who had been stabbed in an apartment complex. When they arrived on the scene, they discovered two more people in the apartment who had been stabbed multiple times. One of the three victims was able to get away to another apartment in the complex to have her neighbor call the Havre Police Department.

As the Havre police were investigating the scene, they received another call around 6 a.m. about a disturbance. When they arrived, they found other officers had a person in their squad car that fit the description of the assailant. He was also covered in blood.

The person was identified as Brown and he was arrested as a suspect of the attack, as well as the state district warrant.

When Brown was questioned by police the night of the event, he told them he "would never do something like that," the investigation report from officers reads.

In his arraignment Wednesday, his lawyer said he wanted to have Brown undergo a psychological evaluation before his June hearing.