a charge of aggravated assault anyway.

A resident of Outerbridge Road testified she had been outside early in the morning last Nov. 28, and had seen a man drive a school bus onto the street, parking it near the home of Dove’s grandmother. The woman said the man got out and banged on the door, appearing angry.

Dove’s teenage brother testified he had been living with their grandmother in her home and had woken up early to get ready for school. Hearing yelling and fighting around 8 a.m., he went upstairs from his basement bedroom to see what was happening.

The teenager said he saw Dove and another man fighting inside the home near the front door, and when the man ran outside, Dove chased him. The teenager said he followed,and tracked a scent to a home on Doyle Street, where Keeping was found, hiding on the ground under a patio. He was carrying two knives and four cellphones, one of them belonging to Dove’s grandmother. A key to a school bus — later determined to have been stolen — was found on the ground where Keeping had been lying. The bus was parked next to Dove’s grandmother’s house and Keeping’s blood was found on paper towels inside the vehicle.

Dove received three stab wounds in the attack, requiring surgery, but declined to provide police with a sample of his DNA in order to compare it to samples taken from the knives Keeping was carrying.

Keeping’s lawyer, Shelley Senior, had suggested there were two men hiding from police in the