STEVENS POINT — A Wausau teenager who stabbed a 60-year-old female relative and stole her vehicle will spend about three years behind bars, after he was sentenced Friday in Portage County Circuit Court.
Dylan Carver was 15 in July 2016 when he stabbed the woman at her home on Haga Drive in Plover five times in the back with a pocket knife. The woman, who nearly died, told police the attack was unprovoked.
Carver, who is now 16, told the woman, “I guess I should call 911,” but then took her keys, purse and phone, and left without calling police or paramedics.
He arrested the next day in Wausau at the home of a friend, police said.
Portage County Circuit Judge Robert Shannon sentenced Carver Friday to 50 months behind bars but gave Carver credit for the 443 days he spent in jail waiting to be tried. Carver pleaded guilty in July to first degree reckless injury charges. Initially, Carver had been charged with attempted homicide.
Following his release from prison, Carver will spend an additional 50 months on extended supervision. He was also sentenced to 20 months in prison on a charge of battery to prisoners, but that sentence will be served concurrently.
Carver, who was tried as an adult, will be sent to Lincoln Hills until he is 18 and will then be transferred to an adult prison.
