Stabbing suspect pleads not guilty

A Larkspur man accused of trying to kill someone in Marin City pleaded not guilty Monday to attempted murder and other charges.

Julian Nicholas Wilson, 18, was arrested on Feb. 3, eight days after paramedics found a stabbing victim unconscious in the 200 block of Drake Avenue.

Wilson, who is being held without bail, appeared Monday in a gray-striped jail shirt and blue trousers with his wrists shackled at his waist.

The Marin County Sheriff's Office did not release the suspected motive for the stabbing, either at the time of the arrest or in response to follow-up inquiries before Wilson's court date Monday. The complaint charging Wilson also does not specify a possible motive.

At the time of the stabbing, Wilson was out on bail in another felony case, facing a charge of illegally carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in public, according to the complaint.

The gun charge stems from a Jan. 1 incident in which Wilson allegedly had a Glock 21 pistol and allegedly resisted when Central Marin police tried to arrest him.

Wilson is also accused of battering a Golden Gate Transit driver on Oct. 22, vandalizing two cars and a San Rafael 7-Eleven store on Nov. 13 and attacking and injuring a former dating partner on Dec. 22, according to complaints against him.

Wilson's attorney, Will Morehead, declined to comment.

A second defendant, 22-year-old Daeshawn Damarri Burr of Marin City, is charged with being an accessory after the fact and hiding the knife in the stabbing, according to the complaint. Burr had been released following his arrest and remains free pending trial.

Burr declined to comment after Monday's hearing. Through an attorney, he has also pleaded not guilty.