A Saranac Lake man has pleaded guilty to attempted murder for the non-fatal stabbing of a Lake Placid man on Lake Flower Avenue last March. He has been sentenced to seven years in state prison. According to the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, 73 year old Walter Finnegan, Jr. pleaded guilty to second-degree attempted murder.
Finnegan stabbed Aaron Gillespie, 49, of Lake Placid numerous times during an altercation at 219 Lake Flower Ave. last March. Gillespie was hospitalized with multiple stab wounds.