From WHYY: Wilmington public defender stabbed in Market Street incident that police did not report

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Delaware public defender Timothy Weiler was outside Wilmington’s Grand Opera House on Friday afternoon when someone approached him from behind. He felt a sharp pain in his back and thought he’d been punched.

“That’s from me to you,’’ the attacker called, and ran away, recalled Weiler.

Weiler actually had been stabbed — not punched — and his alleged assailant was a former legal client police identified as 58-year-old Timothy Silvil.

Weiler told WHYY he didn’t realize their former association until a fellow attorney reminded him that Weiler had represented the man in a 2006 arson case. Weiler had no recollection about the case, he told WHYY. Click on the headline below for the full story from WHYY.

It remains unclear why Wilmington Police did not issue information on the incident. The department typically issues releases through its notification system.

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