A newly released mugshot released by Florida police, shows the grisly looking stitched up gash, across the ex-boyfriend who stabbed his ex-girlfriend 15 times and then attempted to slice his own throat.
Spencer Pearson, 18, maniacally stabbed Madison Schemitz roughly 15 times after ambushing her and her mother in a Ponte Vedra Beach parking lot earlier this month.
The former high school football player then “steadily” sliced his own throat after the attack and spent several weeks in the hospital before being booked into a St. John’s County jail Friday.
Pearson, who also stabbed Schemitiz’s mother, Jacki Roge, and intervening bystander Kennedy Armstrong, made his initial court appearance Saturday and remains jailed without bond.
Still wearing bandages around his neck and outfitted in manacles and a blue prison suit, the recent Ponte Vedra High School graduate bowed his head while waiting for the proceeding to start.
Pearson did not speak during his hearing other than acknowledging that he understood the charges against him.
A judge imposed no-contact orders for all three victims that were attacked in the broad-daylight attack.
The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office said, “Pearson is currently being held in special housing because he remains a suicide risk after being released from the hospital for his self-harming wound.”
The local community gathered together and held many fundraisers and a GoFundMe page to raise almost $150,000 for the recuperating Schemitz. She suffered serious injuries to her spine and was temporarily paralyzed at one point.
The popular rising senior was with her mother and a friend at Mr. Chubby’s Wings on June 3 when she spotted Pearson lurking outside.
They quickly paid the check and left, but Pearson intercepted the group as they walked to their car and began hacking at Schemitz.
Pearson also stabbed her mother as she tried to intervene before Kennedy, a stranger who had just pulled into the lot, finally knocked him off Schemitz as she lay bleeding.
Shocked witnesses said that Pearson then began to cut his own neck to commit suicide.
Roge reported Pearson to police just days before the attack, telling them he had been stalking her daughter both in person and online.
She also alerted Pearson’s mother about her concerns and was told that she would address them.
