Man cooking steaks and watching TV with new friend suddenly has his throat slit and is stabbed 20 times in the back, police say

A antheral successful Alabama letting different antheral enactment astatine his flat for a fewer days was cooking steaks and watching TV with him erstwhile abruptly his pharynx was slit and helium was stabbed successful the backmost by the visitor, authorities say.

Nicolas Trombetta, 25, is charged with attempted murder, according to jailhouse records from the Marshall County Sheriff's Office.

Jonathan Blake Chaney, 30, identified himself to Huntsville-based NBC affiliate WAFF arsenic the victim. He besides shared his harrowing relationship of what happened that fateful day.

On June 12, Chaney was astatine his flat analyzable successful Albertville, according to authorities. Trombetta was seemingly besides determination aft the 2 men precocious met and Chaney fto him enactment astatine his spot for a fewer days.

Chaney said the 2 were cooking, "hanging retired watching TV," and readying to spell kayaking the pursuing time erstwhile everything changed.

"I was caught disconnected guard, due to the fact that we went from cooking steaks … to you conscionable slit my throat, you know, and truthful of people I get up, commencement trying to drawback my telephone disconnected the nightstand, and that's conscionable erstwhile helium conscionable starts stabbing maine successful the back," the unfortunate told the section TV station.

The 2 men reportedly struggled until Chaney fell onto the floor. He suggested that a endurance instinct took implicit him.

"I conscionable retrieve thinking, 'you cannot dice similar this,' Chaney said. "The full clip I was warring him, that's what I was thinking."

Chaney got the weapon distant from Trombetta and fought back. Officers with the Albertville Police Department responded to the country and said some men were inactive there.

Chaney — with much terrible injuries than Trombetta — gave his broadside of the story, authorities said. Officers spotted a room weapon covered successful humor successful the apartment's bedroom.

An researcher said that a camera wrong the flat would person captured the full attack, but 2 hours beforehand, Trombetta had faced it the different way.

The suspect is being detained successful the Marshall County Jail without bond.