Grandfather Accused Of Stabbing 14-Year-Old

NEW PORT RICHEY, FL — A 65-year-old grandfather faces attempted murder charges after Pasco County Sheriff’s deputies say he attacked his 14-year-old grandson with a knife.

According to the sheriff’s office, Paul Patrick Porter-Jackson, his daughter, Christina Ayala, and her 14-year-old son, Jessy, went to Tarpon Springs on Saturday, March 4. While there, an argument broke out between the three and Porter-Jackson reportedly took off on foot. Several hours later, Porter-Jackson returned to his daughter’s Abington Avenue home, an arrest report said.

Christina Ayala told deputies she and her father went into a back bedroom to discuss “the way Paul had been speaking to her children, in particular her son,” the arrest report said. Ayala told deputies her father became “very angry and pulled a knife that he normally carries in a leather sheath on his belt.”

The report said Porter-Jackson raised the knife, making his daughter fear he was going to attack her. The report said Porter-Jackson moved past his daughter and attacked his grandson instead.

The 14-year-old suffered “several severe lacerations and stab wounds to his left arm, shoulder and left side of his head,” the arrest report said. The boy was taken by ambulance to a local hospital following the Saturday night incident.

Paul Porter-Jackson, who the sheriff’s office said was visiting his family from Jamaica, was booked into the Land O’ Lakes Detention Center. He was charged with one count of attempted murder and one count of domestic aggravated assault. Porter-Jackson was being held Monday in lieu of $520,000 bond.

Booking photo courtesy of the Pasco County Jail