Jail time handed down for attempted murder in Morgantown
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MORGANTOWN - A former West Virginia University student will serve three to 15 years in jail for attempted murder.
Tyler Joseph Bollhorst, 21, of Aldie, Va., was sentenced this Tuesday, Monongalia County Prosecutor Gabrielle Mucciola said, and was immediately placed into custody at the North Central Regional Jail.
A Monongalia County jury found Bollhorst guilty of the charge in September.
Bollhorst was arrested last April after a fight on Forest Avenue that sent a man to J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital with multiple stab wounds, reports said.
The man survived his injuries.
Surveillance video viewed by police was said to have shown Bollhorst, who was 20 and attending classes at WVU at the time, involved in an altercation with the victim and several others.
He was shown holding a knife in his right hand while "swinging" it in the direction of the victim, police said.