A man who cut his mother’s throat and then tried to claim she attacked him first will serve a month in jail.
The man, Wesley Lex Leverett, 24, entered a guilty plea before General Sessions Judge Bill Locke to the charge of domestic assault. He was directed to serve 30 days of an 11-month, 29-day sentence and must go for a mental health exam and alcohol and drug assessment. His sentence must be served in addition to an unrelated circuit case.
Police say they responded to a call at Oaks Apartments on Oriole Drive and found a woman with a minor cut on her throat.
“Wesley Leverett was sitting in the hallway floor and had a severe laceration to his top left forearm that was bleeding profusely,” said McMinnville police officer Brian Holt. “A small lock blade knife lie beside him.”
When confronted by the officer about what happened, Leverett said his mother had attacked him with a knife, slashing his arm before cutting herself. However, a witness who was in the bathroom at the time of the incident, said he overheard Leverett admitting he had cut himself. Police also noticed the cut to Leverett’s mother’s throat did not appear to be consistent with a self-inflicted wound.
“It was determined from the statements of those at the scene that Wesley Leverett was the primary aggressor and had cut his mother,” Holt concluded.