Neighbor: Knife victim said name before collapse

? Naked and bleeding from a cut to her throat, a piece of duct tape around one wrist, Carolyn Marksberry uttered a name as she collapsed into a neighbor’s house after a man killed two of her children and wounded a third.

“She was saying the guy’s name Marc Chapman,” neighbor Mike Schlachta said Saturday, recalling how he was awakened early the previous morning as Marksberry rang his doorbell and collapsed inside.

Marco Chapman, a youth soccer coach last fall in this Ohio River town 45 miles southwest of Cincinnati was arrested and jailed in West Virginia, where he was awaiting extradition. Police in Kentucky charged him with murder, assault and burglary in the attack that killed Chelbi Sharon, 7, and her 6-year-old brother, Cody.

Marksberry remained in critical condition Saturday at a Cincinnati hospital. A 10-year-old daughter who survived the attack, Courtney Sharon, was in fair condition.

Marksberry had gone to Schlachta’s home for help about 6 a.m. Friday. As she was being put into an ambulance, Schlachta began to go across the street to her house to check on her children when he learned from police that there had been a multiple homicide.

“I went down on the ground and started crying,” Schlachta said.

Police have offered no motive for the attack, describing Chapman only as an acquaintance of Marksberry.

But Marksberry’s friends and neighbors said Chapman had been one of her close friends.