Comer man charged with stabbing mom, possibly with a nail, while she slept

Madison County sheriff’s investigators returned to a home in Comer on Monday to search the location for more evidence related to a late night attack on a woman that occurred two days earlier.

A suspect, the victim’s 38-year-old son, is in jail.

The woman was transported to Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center on Saturday with numerous stab wounds to her neck and chest, according to the sheriff’s report.

The attack occurred shortly after 3 a.m. Saturday at a home on Clairmont Avenue, where the victim called to report that she was stabbed while she asleep in bed, deputies said.

The woman, who made her way to the front porch, told the officer that she didn’t know if her assailant was still in the home.

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A deputy reported he went into the house and found trails of blood and in her bedroom was a large nail that possibly was used in the attack.

The suspect had fled and a K9 unit from the Georgia Department of Corrections arrived and tracked the suspect to Flint Street, about a block away, where the trail ended. The dog’s handler told deputies the suspect apparently got into a vehicle at that point.

A manhunt then ensued for the suspect, identified as Wayne Patrell Jackson of Comer. A sheriff’s deputy received information that Jackson was hiding at a location in nearby Colbert.

“We got information he was inside a camper on Fleming Street,” Chief Deputy Jeff Vaughn said Monday.

“He barricaded himself in for a little while, but we got him out,” Vaughn said.

Jackson remains in jail without bond on charges of aggravated assault, aggravated battery and home invasion.

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