A 47-year-old Morgan Hill man was charged with four felonies, including attempted murder, for brutally beating his neighbor with a baseball bat during a Dec. 9 altercation, according to the district attorney’s office.
Mark Weber, 47, of Oak Grove Court in Morgan Hill, was arraigned in the Morgan Hill courthouse Dec. 22, where he did not enter a plea on charges of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, residential burglary and making criminal threats.
Weber will be back in court Dec. 30.
The unidentified victim is recovering from his “serious” injuries, according to the DA’s office.
“They were arguing; he walked back to his house and came back with a baseball bat a couple minutes later,” Deputy District Attorney Patricia Henley detailed. “He then assaulted him with the bat and struck him several times. The victim ran into his home. He followed him in and continued to assault him.”
That is where the residential burglary count comes into play since the suspect entered the home with the intent to commit a felony. He did not steal any property from the residence.
“We are still in the early stages of the case,” Henley added.
Weber fled the scene before local police arrived to find the victim and had been on the run before self surrendering Dec. 21 “without incident” at the Morgan Hill Police Department, according to MHPD’s Facebook page.
The bizarre incident—which at one point was reported as a possible suicide threat—started about 12:45 p.m. Dec. 9. At that time, officers from the Morgan Hill Police Department responded to a call of a fight in progress between two men on the 200 block of Oak Grove Court, according to a Dec. 14 press release from MHPD.
Initial reports suggested that one of the men used a baseball bat to assault the other, police said. Shortly after the first call, police received a second phone call reporting that Weber, 47, had killed his neighbor with a bat.
Officers responded to the scene and eventually located the victim, who was not dead but was suffering from major injuries inside his home, the press release states. The victim was transported to a local hospital where he was treated for possible life threatening injuries.
Officers searched the area for Weber throughout the evening Dec. 9 but he fled the scene before police arrived.
MHPD and police from multiple other agencies were stationed in the Oak Grove Court neighborhood, near the intersection of Wright Avenue, for several hours Dec. 9 as they attempted to make contact with the resident at the scene of the assault.
