Daughter accused of hatchet attack

WYOMING, Mich. (WOOD) - The daughter accused of attacking her parents with a hatchet on Wednesday morning that led to a standoff with police has been arrested.

Wednesday morning, police in Wyoming surrounded a home at the corner of Jefferson Avenue and Freedom Street SE where 28-year-old Amber Wilson allegedly attacked her mother and stepfather. Police determined after a standoff that she had fled the scene prior to their arrival.

Police then searched the area for Wilson. She was found and arrested in the area of 36th Street and Clyde Park Avenue.

Police told 24 Hour News 8 they were first contacted by the victims just before 1 a.m. Wednesday.

Investigators said the victims were sleeping when their daughter, who also lives in the home, attacked. She first struck her mother with a hatchet. When her stepfather intervened, police say, she pulled out another weapon and stabbed him.

According to police, the two victims escaped from their home, got into their car and began driving. They came across a Wyoming police officer who was conducting a traffic stop. The officer called for an ambulance and the couple told the officer they had been attacked by their daughter.

Both victims were taken to a hospital. The female victim is in stable condition. The male victim has been released from the hospital.

A full SWAT response began around 4:45 a.m. Wednesday. Police surrounded the home where the attack occurred. The standoff ended around 7:15 a.m.

Wilson was lodged in the Kent County Correctional Facility on two counts of attempted murder.

Police said her mom and stepfather say Wilson had been acting strangely in the past few days.

The woman who lives next door told 24 Hour News 8 she was shocked to learn of the attack.

"I had fear, but I was more puzzled than anything," she said. "I can't fathom that with her. I really can't. It's hard to believe."

But a Personal Protection Order filed against the suspect reveals concerns that came about during the last few years. A former teacher who had Wilson as a student at Godwin Heights High School told authorities he barely remembered her when she contacted him 11 years later, sending a litany of bizarre messages, mostly via Facebook.

After police were contacted, they say in their reports, Wilson alleged memories of a sexual relationship with the teacher.

"It appears as if she has some type of mental condition that is causing her to believe things that have never occurred," according to the report.

In one of the messages to the teacher, she allegedly talked about harming her family.

"I am capable of keeping the darkness inside me from making me do bad things. I proved that with Justin, Skip, my mom and others when I had the chance to destroy them but didn't. I'm almost done proving that I can keep it from damaging myself," the report says she wrote.

Wilson was charged with misdemeanor stalking after she arrived at the teacher's new job looking for him last year.

In the PPO, there is talk of an injury in an accident a few years ago that may have predicated Wilson's behavior. But at this point, police aren't sure what went wrong.