Homeless Man Slits Woman’s Throat After She Let Him Into Her Home For Bath: Cops

[Sugar Cookie]

A homeless man in Utah allegedly slit a woman’s throat after she let him into her home to shower, cops said.

Officers responded to a call of a woman heavily bleeding from the neck around 5 p.m. last Sunday at her home in Salt Lake City, according to cops.

She was transported to a local hospital in critical condition and underwent emergency surgery. Her condition was later upgraded to stable, but her current condition is unknown, cops said.

The woman told investigators she let the man, later identified by police as 30-year-old Eric Jones, into her home to bathe.

Homeless man slits woman’s throat after she let him into her home for bath: cops

Officers responded to a call of a woman heavily bleeding from the neck around 5 p.m. last Sunday at her home in Salt Lake City, according to cops.

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At around 1 a.m. on Feb. 11, officers located Jones and later booked him into the Salt Lake County Metro Jail on one count of aggravated assault.


No additional information on this case is being released at this time. There are no further updates available on the victim’s condition.

Homeless man accused of slitting woman’s throat after she let him into her home to shower

Paramedics transported the victim to a local hospital in critical condition where she received emergency surgery. Doctors upgraded the victim’s condition to critical but stable.

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[Hermy]

And people wonder why the world is running out of fucks to give.

At least she wasn't the one taking the shower but Hitchcock had that one covered already. I hope she recovers well.

 

[Inferus]

Guess he wanted a shower instead.

 

[Faery108]

Dang, ya try to do something nice for someone and get your throat slit!
I've given homeless/ home free people money, snacks I had in my car, bottles of water, etc. Someone I know gave one a 3/4 full pitcher of mimosa from a bottomless mimosa, Alice in Wonderland brunch in LA.... Wow tho, lady, to be alone and invite him into your home, for a bath? Never do that. It's terrible what happened to her. I'm just saying, use intelligent thinking and situational awareness, and this could've been averted!

 

[Freyja]

No good deed goes unpunished. Too many people mistake kindness for weakness.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Maybe she knew him from the neighborhood but still letting him in her home was just crazy.

 

[Sevens My Charm]

@Sugar Cookie that was my first thought he was an acquaintance of some sorts ..

 

[TX Leather Face]

In all seriousness, what is the appeal to doing or even trying bath salts? Are there people that do them and then go enjoy family movie night at home? Or is it just shit like this and cannibalism?

 

[Dzaniel]

In all seriousness, what is the appeal to doing or even trying bath salts? Are there people that do them and then go enjoy family movie night at home? Or is it just shit like this and cannibalism?

I saw both Salt Lake City and and a bath mentioned in the story. No bath salts. Am I blind or were you trying to make a funny?

 

[TX Leather Face]

I saw both Salt Lake City and and a bath mentioned in the story. No bath salts. Am I blind or were you trying to make a funny?

Lol. Touché.

 

[Symmachus]

I get that the woman was trying to be nice here, but not only was she too trusting, but this comes off as a corny way to help someone she did not know [very well] in the first place. Who comes up to a residence and asks, "Hey, can I take a shower in your place?". That is just not a service someone has to lend out.

 

[Sevens My Charm]

For the fourth time since 2018, 30-year-old Eric Jones is in the Salt Lake County Jail accused of a violent crime involving a knife.

In his most recent arrest, a police report said he cut a woman’s throat and stomped her head after she asked him to leave her apartment near 850 South West Temple Street.

Just over a year ago, Jones was accused of a similar crime in South Salt Lake.

The victim in that case, Winfred Willis, said he allowed Jones into his apartment to shower, but ended up being attacked by him.

A police report said Jones attacked Willis with a machete, striking him in the head, neck, and nearly severing Willis’ thumb. Willis said he had 18 lacerations to his head.

Jones was arrested and charged with aggravated assault. The charges against him, however, were dismissed on Nov. 20, 2021.

Willis said he told prosecutors that he was too traumatized to testify.

It was not the first time witness issues saved Jones from criminal charges.

In June 2020, Salt Lake City Police arrested Jones for allegedly stabbing a man who he confronted on the street.

A few months later, prosecutors filed a motion in court saying the charges were being dropped because the state "lacks the necessary witnesses to proceed."

Jones also beat criminal charges of aggravated assault in 2018 when prosecutors noted they were unable to locate a witness. In that case, Jones was accused of choking his girlfriend and threatening to kill her.

In 2019, Jones was convicted for one count of aggravated assault for threatening a man and woman with an axe on Downingtown Ave in Salt Lake City, according to court records.

“ Consistent with that case, we asked that he go to prison,” Gill told 2News.

But a judge sentenced Jones to jail and probation. Within a few months, Jones was sent to the in-custody treatment program Odyssey House, according to court records.

He was released early from the program in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, court records showed.

Agents from Adult Probation and Parole began supervising Jones, but reported he consistently failed to comply with the terms of probation, according to reports obtained by 2News.

AP&P records showed 14 probation violations between June 2020 and May 2021.

Willis, the victim from Jones’ 2021 arrest, said he worried Jones would attack someone else. He hopes Jones faces prison if he’s convicted of attacking the woman this month.

Prosecutors are screening charges for the attack on the woman in Salt Lake City. Jones is being held without bail in the Salt Lake County Jail and agents have requested a hearing to review Jones’ probation on his previous conviction.

Man accused of cutting Utah woman's throat avoided prison for previous knife crimes

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