Patient at recovery center accused of stabbing fellow patient 6 times in the neck 

HEBER CITY — A 20-year-old patient at an addiction recovery center in Wasatch County was arrested Wednesday and accused of stabbing another patient in the neck in an unprovoked attack.

Hunter Ryan Kluser was booked into the Wasatch County Jail for investigation of attempted murder.

Sheriff’s deputies were called to an addiction recovery center Wednesday, where a patient was flown by medical helicopter to University of Utah Hospital to be treated for a stab wound to his neck, according to a police booking affidavit.

“I learned that Hunter Ryan Kluser, who is a voluntary patient of the facility, stabbed another patient in the neck with a knife,” the arresting deputy wrote in the affidavit. “I reviewed (security video) of the incident, which shows the victim sitting on a couch in the common area of the facility when Hunter walks up behind him and starts swinging a knife at the victim’s neck unprovoked. Hunter attacks the victim from behind without warning and appears to be unprovoked. The video depicts Hunter aggressively swinging the knife repeatedly at the victim’s neck even after the victim slumps over to protect himself.”

In the video, investigators say Kluser appears to have stabbed the victim six times.

Police said at last word, the victim was “stable” and “is expected to live.”