A young male suspected in the Thursday morning fatal stabbing of his younger brother remains in critical condition after running into a truck on U.S. 1 in Islamorada near Executive Bay Club on Thursday evening.
The father, who was also attacked during the Thursday morning incident, is out of surgery and recovering. Per Sheriff Rick Ramsay, 43-year-old Ariel Poholek’s prognosis is “pretty good.” Both the suspect, 17-year-old Daniel Weisberger, and Poholek are receiving treatment at Jackson Health in Miami.
Ramsay said the investigation is ongoing from the time the incident inside the Executive Bay apartment began around 4 a.m. Thursday to the suspect’s “attempted suicide” some 15 hours later.
“We’re trying to put the pieces to the puzzle together still,” Ramsay said Friday morning. “We still have to talk to the father and try to see what he knows. There were only three people in the room, and one is deceased and the other one — the young man we believe is the suspect — is in a pretty critical state.”
Ramsay said he was last told that Weisberger “wasn’t in a conscious state.”
“Obviously, we’re unable to talk to the suspect at this point in time due to his medical conditions, so we can’t get a chance to see what he’s got to say,” he said.
All in all, Ramsay said the important thing is the suspect is no longer a threat to the general public and officers.
“We hate to see that he’s hurt. We were hoping to capture him alive and unharmed,” he said. “We were concerned about him being on the loose.”
