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A St. Regis man has been charged with three counts of attempted deliberate homicide following a multiple stabbing last week.
Thomas Philip Gunderson, 36, is being held at the Mineral County jail on a $1 million bail. He is also charged with one count of misdemeanor resisting arrest.
Charging documents filed by Mineral County Attorney Debra Jackson last week state that a woman called 911 on Jan. 6, just before 5 p.m., to report that her brother had stabbed her, her 13-year-old daughter and her 71-year-old father with a hunting knife.
When law enforcement arrived at the woman's house, they found the woman's father motionless in the living room with stab wounds in his back and furniture "strewn around the house."
Gunderson was standing in the doorway with his hands in the air, according to the affidavit, but he refused to comply with commands to get down on the floor. He was eventually arrested.
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The woman told officers she heard her daughter screaming and ran into her room, where Gunderson was stabbing her while she was lying in bed, charging documents state. She tried to pull him off but was also subsequently stabbed.
The girl reportedly suffered 11 stab wounds in the attack, including punctures to both lungs. Her mother was stabbed three or four times, according to the charges, including on the side of her neck.
Her father came into the room but was knocked to the ground by Gunderson, who wordlessly began stabbing him, according to the charges. Along with his granddaughter, he was later hospitalized in the intensive care unit at a Missoula hospital, Mineral County Sheriff Ryan Funke said last week. The affidavit states the man required surgery to remove his spleen after suffering "numerous stab wounds."
Funke, who was among the two officers to respond, allegedly heard Gunderson later say, "Sorry I killed your dad" as medical personnel treated the woman's father.
The woman who reported the incident told investigators Gunderson "had recently been complaining about something being wrong with his head, like paranoid schizophrenia, and that he was going to be arrested," the charges state.
The state Division of Criminal Investigation is overseeing the case. His arraignment is scheduled for Jan. 22 before Mineral County District Judge Shane Vannatta.
If found guilty, Gunderson faces from 12 to 110 years in prison for each count of attempted deliberate homicide with a weapon, and up to six months in jail for the misdemeanor.
Sam Wilson is the criminal justice reporter for the Missoulian.
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