Overview
- Deputies and medics found 10-month-old Enoch Chappell with multiple stab wounds at a Barnardsville home Thursday, and he died soon after at Mission Hospital.
- Investigators arrested his mother, Ciara Frederick, on first-degree murder and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon tied to an alleged chase of an adult man with a fixed-blade knife, whose identity has not been made public.
- She remains jailed without bond at the Buncombe County Detention Facility as the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office says the investigation is still active.
- After a brief first appearance Friday, a Buncombe County judge told Frederick that a conviction could mean life without parole or a death sentence.
- Court officials say she requested and received court-appointed counsel through the state’s capital defender system, and records list a probable-cause hearing for April 16.