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Published June 02, 2008 10:57 pm - The family of the Greenville woman who was stabbed and seriously hurt in a brutal attack May 20 that left her father dead has set up a bank account to help pay for her medical bills.

Care fund set up for Greenville stabbing victim


By Monica Pryts
Herald Staff Writer

GREENVILLE

The family of the Greenville woman who was stabbed and seriously hurt in a brutal attack May 20 that left her father dead has set up a bank account to help pay for her medical bills.

Donations can be made at any First National Bank branch to the Heather Turk Benefit Fund, a bank employee said Monday.

None of Ms. Turk’s relatives could be reached for comment on her condition, which authorities last reported to be critical but stable.

Ms. Turk, 22, of 94 Clinton St., Apartment 103, who was stabbed multiple times in the head with a knife, is being treated in a hospital that authorities won’t name to protect her.

Krystle Sue Weaver, 20, of Fowler, Ohio, and Ronald Victor Machado, 21, of Jamestown, a couple who once lived with Ms. Turk in the apartment where the attack took place, were arrested May 22 on charges including homicide and attempted homicide for injuring Ms. Turk and killing her father, Thomas Lorigan, 44, of 183 Ray Road, Greene Township.

Machado hanged himself May 24 in his cell at Trumbull County Jail in Warren while awaiting extradition to Mercer County.

Ms. Weaver was arraigned May 27 by District Judge William L. Fagley, Greenville, and is scheduled to have a preliminary hearing June 19. She’s being held in Mercer County Jail, as homicide suspects are not eligible for bail.

Police, who are still trying to determine a motive behind the crime, allege that Machado and Ms. Weaver waited in Ms. Turk’s apartment late May 19 and unscrewed some light bulbs to darken the first floor.

Mr. Turk, Lorigan and her two children, about 1 and 2, returned from grocery shopping when Machado and Ms. Weaver attacked the father and daughter with knives, stabbing them both in the head.

They also stole a television and Ms. Turk’s purse, which contained $440.

The children were not harmed and are in protective custody.

Anyone with information about the crime is asked to call Greenville-West Salem Township police at 724-588-4191.



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