The FBI on Tuesday identified the hiker who was hacked to death with a machete on the Appalachian Trail in Virginia over the weekend. James Jordan, 36, of Cape Cod, Mass., was arrested and accused of killing Sanchez and nearly killing a female hiker with a machete, officials said. FEDS ARREST MAN IN DEADLY MACHETE ATTACK ON APPALACHIAN TRAIL IN VIRGINIA“This incident remains the subject of an ongoing investigation, and additional information, including the identities and status of the surviving victim hikers, will not be released at this time,” Archey and Cullen said. At the time of the attack, Jordan was on probation in a case in Tennessee in which he was accused of threatening hikers on the Appalachian Trail with a knife and a machete. APPALACHIAN TRAIL MACHETE ATTACK SUSPECT WAS ACTING 'DISTURBED AND UNSTABLE': FBI COMPLAINTThe deputy also said that he searched Jordan's bag and found marijuana and a large knife wrapped in cardboard with orange tape "fitting the description of the said possible assault,” the court papers say.

Source: Fox News May 14, 2019 20:15 UTC