'Stop fighting it': Home health aide crawled into elderly patient's bed and knifed her

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A New York woman who worked as a home health aide for an elderly patient was charged with attempted murder.

Amanda Fraser, 23, was arrested in October after she allegedly stabbed Wendy Wilson, the then-84-year-old woman she was tasked with caring for as an overnight home health aide. According to Nassau County District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly, Fraser was caught on surveillance cameras at Wilson's home in Massapequa, New York, at 2:08 a.m. on Oct. 29, entering Wilson's bedroom as she slept. Fraser then allegedly plunged a chef's knife with an 8-inch blade into Wilson's torso and "repeatedly whispered for the woman to succumb."

Donnelly said that Fraser then left the older woman to bleed in her bed alone until the next home health aide arrived.

According to Donnelly, Fraser "held the knife firm" in Wilson's body for "an excruciating 16 minutes." Wilson woke up in pain and moaning and tried to remove the knife. Fraser allegedly "maintained her grip on the knife handle" while whispering to Wilson to "just let go" and "stop fighting it."

Fraser allegedly removed the knife at 2:28 a.m., per the surveillance cameras, and left Wilson's home. Local ABC affiliate WABC spoke to Wilson's son, Kery Kilgannon, who told the station that cameras on the outside of the home allegedly showed Fraser attempting to hit the house with her Dodge Charger before she fled the scene on foot. Coverage from the day after the stabbing by CBS affiliate WCBS showed Fraser's car still parked on the front lawn of Wilson's home.

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