Girl identifies her brother as attacker after waking up from two-year coma

A West Virginia girl who wakened from a two-year coma recognized her brother as her attacker, based on police.

When Wanda Palmer awoke from a coma, she instructed police her brother, Daniel Palmer III, was chargeable for her coma, based on CNN. Whereas Palmer was solely capable of reply easy yes-no questions, police gathered sufficient testimony to arrest her brother and cost him with tried homicide and malicious wounding, police stated Friday.

"After 2 years of being hospitalized and in a coma ensuing from being attacked, hacked, and left for lifeless, Wanda Palmer is now awake to see her assailant in custody — her brother, Daniel Palmer," stated an announcement posted on the Jackson County Sheriff's Division's Fb.

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Palmer was present in an "upright place" on her sofa at her residence close to Cottageville, West Virginia, with extreme accidents brought on by what gave the impression to be a hatchet or axe in June 2020, based on police. A witness reported seeing Palmer's brother on her porch round midnight the evening earlier than she was found, Jackson County Sheriff Ross Mellinger stated.

Police investigated a number of folks however might by no means file costs, and the weapon with which she was attacked has by no means been recovered, based on police.

Palmer III was arraigned and assessed with a bond of $500,000, based on Mellinger, who stated it's unclear how he pleaded.

Palmer is coherent now, however she is unable to carry full-length conversations, Mellinger stated.