Death penalty a possibility for Terre Haute man

TERRE HAUTE – A man facing the death penalty in the fatal stabbing of his 4-year-old son will be tried in October.\nKatron Walker, 33, of Terre Haute, is accused of killing Collin Walker after holding the boy and his brother at knifepoint from their grandfather’s backyard. He also is charged with attempted murder in the stabbing of his 2-year-old son, Monte Walker, who was cut on his neck and had puncture wounds in his chest. A Vigo Superior Court judge during a Tuesday hearing set Katron Walker’s trial for October 1.\nDivers found Collin’s body on June 14, 2006, in a lake in Blackhawk, Ind., a few miles south of Terre Haute. \nThe boys were the subject of an Amber Alert after being taken after their mother, Teresa Walker, who had told her husband that she wanted a divorce and had moved into a shelter with her sons.\nKatron Walker had marijuana and methamphetamine in his system at the time of his arrest, police said.