By Brittany Grove

Sun Staff Writer

bgrove@evesun.com

NORWICH – Lucinda Knoll, 39, died Sunday night in UHS Wilson Medical Center in Johnson City after she was fatally beaten. Knoll was found in the driveway of her home on Bourbon Street at the Maple Grove Trailer Park, located in the Town of Norwich.

It was Friday, Dec. 27 at approximately 6:45 a.m. when the Chenango County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call reporting a female had been assaulted and robbed outside her residence. The Norwich EMT team arrived to find Knoll covered in blood with severe trauma to her head. She was airlifted to the hospital in critical condition.

Chenango County Sheriff's officers arrested Oxford resident, William H. Danielson, 48, on Friday. Danielson was the ex-boyfriend of Knoll and the father of their seven-year-old son.

He was charged with the class B felony of attempted murder in the second degree; and the class B felony of robbery in the first degree.

Danielson was arraigned in Chenango County Court. Judge Frank B. Revoir, Jr. remanded him to the Chenango County Correctional Facility without bail.

Mitchell J. O'Neil, 47, said he was smoking a cigarette on his porch and letting his dog outside in the Maple Grove Trailer Park, when he heard screaming coming from a home adjacent to his. He thought it was a child yelling for help.

“I still can't get it out of my head. There was a lot of blood underneath her head and on her coat. I am trying to get it off my chest, but I can't,” said O'Neil.

O'Neil said he rushed toward the screams and found Knoll's seven-year-old son standing near the victim who told him he thinks his mom is dead.