Callaway County authorities are holding a man charged with attacking four people at a homeless shelter with a chainsaw and a knife.

Eight charges have been filed against Matthew Watkins of St. Clair. The sheriff says Watkins had been staying for about a week at the New Life Evangelistic Center training center near the community of New Bloomfield.

Two of the people Watkins is charged with attacking have been hospitalized but the sheriff says they are expected to recover.