FRANKLIN, Ind. (WISH) — A Franklin man faces up to 20 years in prison after threating to kill his own family.
According to a release from Johnson County Prosecutor’s Office, on March 22, officers responded to Candlewood Suites in Greenwood and found a juvenile male covered in blood after he had stabbed his stepfather, Robert Vanatta IV, in what investigators determined to be an act of self-defense.
Police say earlier that day, the juvenile and his two siblings, ages 17, 16, and 5, and their mother, fled to the hotel to escape Vanatta…