WARSAW – After being released from the hospital, the surviving child of Friday’s brutal stabbings provided details of the attack that left her younger brother and sister dead and her mother in serious condition.

Ten-year-old Courtney Sharon, daughter of Carolyn Marksberry, told her aunt that Marco Allen Chapman woke her up early Friday and led her to the kitchen, where he “started his craziness.”

“She can’t stop talking about it,” said the aunt, Brenda Raisor of Walton. “She knew her brother was killed. She didn’t know her sister was dead.”

Courtney was released Saturday from Cincinnati’s Children’s Hospital and taken to her great-grandparent’s home in Warsaw.

“We just listen,” said Raisor, 46. “We don’t ask anything until she wants to talk. But I think she saw a lot.”

Raisor said Courtney blames herself for her 6-year-old brother’s death.

“(Cody) was still living when (Courtney) left because he begged her not to leave,” Raisor said. “But she left the house to get help. She pretended to be dead, and when (Chapman) was trying to kill her mother, she snuck out the back door to get help.”

Courtney told Raisor that Chapman used a spare key hidden outside to get into the home.

Courtney appeared on a Cincinnati television station Saturday with a bandage over her right ear to wish her mother a quick recovery.

Marksberry, 37, learned Saturday morning that her two youngest children – Chelbi, 7, and Cody – were killed, Raisor said. Tapes of Courtney’s get-well wishes were also delivered to the hospital, family members confirmed.

Marksberry, upgraded to serious condition at University of Cincinnati Hospital, underwent five hours of surgery Friday to repair damage caused by 15 stab wounds to the neck, chest, arm and fingers.

Chapman, of Warsaw, was arraigned Friday afternoon in Kanawha County, W.Va., Magistrate Court and taken to a jail near Charleston. He was apprehended six hours after the attack at a gas station in Shrewsberry, W.Va., about 270 miles from Warsaw.

The 30-year-old is being held without bond, pending an extradition hearing within the next 10 days. He is charged with two counts of murder, two counts of first-degree assault and one count of burglary.

Federal court records show Chapman, a youth soccer coach last fall in Warsaw, pleaded guilty to a Texas bank robbery in 1994. Virginia court records show he was found guilty in an assault on a University of Virginia student in October 2000.

Sheila Lowder of Carlton-Lowder Funeral Service in Warsaw said arrangements for Chelbi and Cody have been delayed in hopes that Marksberry will be able to attend or at least plan the service. Raisor said Marksberry could barely talk Saturday.

“I know if they were my children I would want a say in the funeral arrangements,” Lowder said.

Marksberry’s husband of one year, Charles, arrived in Cincinnati Saturday night and went to the hospital. He had been in Spain since June training for his job with North American Stainless in Ghent, six miles from Warsaw.

Raisor said the children’s father, Curt Sharon, was an involved parent and is taking the deaths extremely hard.

Kentucky State Police said Chapman broke into Marks-berry’s home sometime before 5 a.m. Friday and used a knife to kill the two youngest children whose bodies were found in their bedrooms. Neighbors say Marksberry escaped from the house, where she apparently had been bound with duct tape, and sought help from a neighbor. About the same time, Courtney went to another neighbor asking for help.

When Courtney escaped, Raisor said, she went to the home of Debbie Peace, and said that Chapman had tried to kill her mother.

Peace, a friend of Marksberry, broke up with Chapman a week ago, Raisor said, and Marksberry had been advising her on the relationship.

Police, however, would not confirm a motive. Peace’s relatives refused to comment.