Photo: NC Man Who Attempted Suicide After Killing ‘Girlfriend’ Tina Knighten In Asheville

Tina Marie Knighten of Asheville, NC, has been named as the woman found dead in a murder and attempted suicide early Saturday morning.

The Asheville Police Department responded to Walton Street at 2:43 a.m. in response to reports of a suicide attempt. When officers arrived on scene, Alvin William Wilson, 54, was attempting to harm himself. He informed officers that he had already “harmed his girlfriend.”

62-year-old Knighten was later found deceased a few blocks away inside a Bartlett Street residence.

Wilson was charged with first degree murder and is currently being treated at Mission Hospital for injuries sustained while attempting to injure himself, police said. Upon release, he will be taken to the Buncombe County Detention Center. source

If anyone has any additional information on this incident they are encouraged to contact the Asheville Police Department at (828) 252-1110 or Crime Stoppers at (828) 255-5050.

It’s not the first time Wilson has been arrested over assaulting a female, TheCount.com has learned. On October 25, 2017, he was arrested and charged in Buncombe, North Carolina with Larceny and assault on a female. It is unclear if Knighten was the same female named in the 2017 police assault report.