Details continue to emerge in the Monday night Fifth Avenue East home invasion and stabbing involving a self-proclaimed gang member.

Court documents have shed more light on the altercation between the homeowner and 19-year-old Dante Kier.

According to the documents, the homeowner went to his garage to get a tool while working on his dishwasher and found Kier in the hallway when he came back inside. He confronted Kier, who used a wood-handled steak knife to stab him in the upper arm and inside the mouth, before attempting several times to stab him in the ribs.

The blade was “bent severely” during the attack, and the homeowner was able to overpower Kier and restrain him while his wife contacted police. Kalispell Police Chief Roger Nasset praised the man’s self-control in only restraining Kier.

“I think the homeowner showed extreme constraint in not being more physical than he needed to be,” Nasset said. “I don’t believe he would have walked out of my house.”

The documents also allege Kier made several voluntary statements that he was attempting to murder the homeowner and that it “felt good.”

Kier has been charged with attempted deliberate homicide, aggravated burglary and assault with a weapon, all felonies. If convicted on all counts, he faces between 12 years and life in prison or death and a fine of up to $100,000.

Prior to the incident, several neighbors reported suspicious notes on their windows stating, with some variation of terms, “Your house has been watched tonight by the creeps.”

“We believe, but have not positively confirmed, that it was him that left the notes,” Nasset said. “Officers are in the process of executing a search warrant that will hopefully clarify that.”

Nasset wanted to ease any residents’ fears that there may be others involved.

“At this point we have no information that would lead us to believe that there was anyone else involved with Mr. Kier on this,” he said. “We don’t think there is any reason for the neighbors to be alarmed that this was a group or anything to that effect.”

Nasset’s comments follow the discovery by officers that Kier claims to be a member of the Insane Clown Posse gang, referring to himself as a “Juggalo.”

The Federal Bureau of Investigation labeled Juggalos a gang threat in its 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment, calling them a “loosely organized hybrid gang” that is “forming more organized subsets and engaging in more gang-like criminal activity.” The group morphed out of the fan base of hip-hop group Insane Clown Posse, consisting of rappers Violent J (Joseph Bruce) and Shaggy 2 Dope (Joseph Utsler).

Kier also allegedly violated a restraining order by calling his stepfather’s wife from jail. Both have restraining orders against Kier. Flathead County Sheriff Chuck Curry could not confirm whether the woman was his mother.