The McDonald’s restaurant in Centralia was the scene of a bloody stabbing during the noon hour on Tuesday.
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – When police officers contacted Calvin J. Beck, he was bleeding from his face, acting strange and made numerous statements that didn’t make sense.
So say prosecutors about the 50-year-old accused of stabbing a fellow customer in the Centralia McDonalds restaurant earlier this week.
Authorities said Beck had been in line acting belligerent to counter employees and one patron told him to leave, which he did. But he allegedly walked back into the lobby and stabbed the individual who had confronted him.
“There were two guys holding him down and another guy met me at the door,” Centralia Police Department Sgt. Kurt Reichert said of his arrival to the 1200 block of Lum Road following the approximately noontime call on Tuesday. “It was a bloody mess.”
A folding knife with a four-inch blade lay on the counter, where it was placed by the civilians who disarmed the suspect.
The victim, Keith Mohoric, was stabbed twice in the abdomen, according to police. but took part in jumping his attacker and holding him for police.
Mohoric was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital and admitted into surgery for his injuries, according to prosecutors. A hospital spokesperson this morning said Mohoric is in good condition.
Beck also was taken to the hospital to be treated for injuries he received when he crashed into a window during the fight, police said.
Beck was booked into the Lewis County Jail later that afternoon and charged yesterday in Lewis County Superior Court with first-degree assault.
Defense attorney Joely O’Rourke asked the judge to postpone the hearing, so a court order for a competency evaluation could be entered. Judge Nelson Hunt agreed and said Beck should be held overnight without bail.
O’Rourke said she didn’t think he comprehended the proceedings.
“I don’t believe he understands the elements of the crime,” she said.
Beck, who has an Olympia address listed in his court file, has a prior conviction for second-degree assault, according to prosecutors. It’s from 1991.
Lewis County Senior Deputy Prosecutor Will Halstead got the order for a mental health evaluation signed yesterday.
Specialists from Western State Hospital are expected to visit the defendant at the jail to conduct their examination and lawyers will likely get their report back next week, Halstead said.
Judge Hunt appointed Centralia attorney Don Blair to represent Beck.
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For background, read “News brief: Police investigate stabbing in Centralia McDonald’s restaurant lobby” from Tuesday July 5, 2016, here
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Calvin J. Beck appeared briefly before a judge in Lewis County Superior Court on Wednesday.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Who gives a shit its a tiny keyboard im using.
No regard for Grammar or the English Language.
No I Laugh when I drive by and Watch all the Bobble Heads eating the Fish Sticks of beef and knowing the mold inhibitors that keep the food from rotting are being consumed by over weight Americans who are clogging their veins with pure Evil Food. Mc Donals stocks are falling in the stock market and the business will be all Robotic within the next 5 years. Say it ain’t just watch and learn. The Peabody is a good study and us ahead of the curve. Wash that diet coke down with the fecal matter of Ecoli. Thats Aspertame,the sweetener thats causing Americans to become Over Weight. Aspertame also has been proven to cause blindness in Primates. Thanks to Donald Rumpsfield who added another member on the FDA, after the FDA blocked it’s use several years in a row. Even the FDA can be bought and Rumpsfield did just that. So many problems with Americans eye due to Aspertame. Why do you think they put the gum at eye leval in the Grocery Isle. It’s a sick joke because the evil doers know it destroys your eyes. Look it all up folks Im well Studied on the Evil that men do. Food for Thought. Boycott Mc Donalds and make you’re own burgers and buy local.
Peabody we can always count on you for a laugh.
You would have to be Mentaly ill too eat at Mcdonalds Silicone in their Mc Nuggets. Tortured Chickens pumped up on Growth Hormones. Mc Donalds food is Old Roy Dog Food for the Fluoride Heads of the World. Good Morning Lewis County my farm fresh eggs were tasty. Buy local eggs and get up eariler and make your’re own Breakfast. Quit being Lazey.. Cock a Doodle Dooo..
I think the bleeding from his face was from getting some of what he deserved for stabbing this guy….. Interesting link regarding the victim though, don’t quite know how that relates to getting stabbed.
Keith Mohoric, just call him “pin cushion”.
The perpetrator was bleeding from the face? Does that imply he was assaulted? Something tells me theres more to this story than what being told. Basically this vigilante Keith guy picked a fight with him over how he was talking to the hamburger waitress and got shanked? Real tough guy trying to play enforcer. No wonder.
The stabbing victim Keith Mohoric embellzed $25,000 from a health clinic in 2011 here is the link.
https://lewiscountysirens.com/?p=7493
I guess karma is a bitch. Must have been a prick. High probabilty he deserved it. Mohorics,… what an bunch of hillbillys.
The former chief financial officer for Steck Medical Group was sentenced yesterday to six months in jail for skimming cash from deposits from the business.
Keith B. Mohoric, 52, of Centralia, was arrested in early May by Chehalis police, accused of embezzling some $25,000 from the health clinic.
MCstabbin!
Lucky he was only held and maybe smacked around. If someone tried stabbing me they are going to get shot.