Man Accused of Killing Girlfriend's Tinder Date Attempts to Slit His Throat During Murder Trial

Aubrey Trail and Bailey Boswell were charged with first-degree murder and improper disposal of human skeletal remains in the killing of Sydney Loofe

The suspected killer of Sydney Loofe, the Nebraska woman who disappeared after an online date, went to extreme lengths to declare the innocence of his alleged accomplice in court on Monday.

Immediately after a witness left the stand during Monday’s hearing at Saline County Courthouse in Wilber, Aubrey Trail suddenly began yelling about his girlfriend Bailey Boswell’s innocence before trying to slit his throat with an unknown object.

In courtroom footage obtained by Ohama World-Herald, Trail can be heard shouting off-camera, “Bailey is innocent, and I curse you all!” just before he dragged the object, which appeared to be some kind of small blade, across the side of his neck and fell from his wheelchair.

The 52-year-old defendant has been in a wheelchair since being incarcerated after suffering two heart attacks and a stroke, according to the local outlet.

Chaos then ensued as multiple Saline County officers rushed towards Trail, who reportedly had blood dripping from his neck, and attempted to remove the object from his possession.After the unexpected incident, Trail was rushed to the hospital while a cleaning crew was called in to clean up the blood on the courtroom floor. Before being loaded onto the ambulance’s stretcher, Trail appeared to be unconscious, the local outlet reports.

One of Trail’s court-appointed defense attorneys, however, said on Monday after the incident that his client expected to be discharged from the hospital within the evening and would be present in court on Tuesday morning.

“We still think we can get a fair trial,” Hebron attorney Ben Murray told the Ohama World-Herald.

Murray and representatives at Saline County Courthouse did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

Saline County District Judge Vicky Johnson later demanded that Trail be handcuffed for the rest of the trial “for obvious reasons,” and said the trial would resume as expected on Tuesday.

She also ordered jurors to “disregard [Trail’s] outburst … and not consider it in your deliberations.”

This isn’t the first time that trial has been disrupted in the past week. According to the Omaha World-Herald, testimony was suddenly halted last Wednesday without reason. It was later revealed that Trail was ill and unable to sit in the courtroom.