Police: Suspect in love triangle stabbing attacked victims while they were sleeping

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – The girl accused of stabbing her ex-lover and his new girlfriend in Waipahu over the weekend went earlier than a decide for the primary time Monday morning.

Irene Guzman is charged with two counts of second-degree tried homicide and one depend of first-degree tried homicide.

The 31-year-old allegedly broke into her ex-boyfriend’s dwelling about 7:30 a.m. Saturday.

In response to courtroom paperwork, the victims have been sleeping when she attacked them each with a knife.

Information present the couple’s two-year relationship had simply ended. The sufferer instructed police he left Guzman three days earlier than the assault.

Legislation enforcement sources say when Guzman noticed her ex-boyfriend asleep in mattress with one other lady she grabbed a knife from his kitchen and stabbed him within the head and arm.

In response to courtroom paperwork, she additionally stabbed his new girlfriend a number of instances when the lady drained to cease the assault. When officers arrived they discovered two massive knives that seemed to be lined in blood.

“It’s a really determined act when an individual perpetrates this sort of excessive violence,” mentioned Nanci Kreidman, head of the Home Violence Motion Middle.

She known as the double stabbing uncommon.

“We don’t see too many crimes the place it’s a feminine perpetrating a critical act of violence like this,” Kreidman mentioned. “When an individual resorts to that degree of violence it’s a pink flag for us that there’s some historical past someplace.”

In response to courtroom information there aren’t any restraining orders or experiences of abuse between Guzman and the ex-boyfriend she’s accused of stabbing. Nevertheless, the 31-year previous has filed two home abuse claims towards two different males ― one in 2016 and one other in 2018.

The TRO request filed in 2018 remains to be enforced.

Guzman was captured by police in Pearl Metropolis shortly after fleeing the crime scene on the intersection of Moanalua Street and Kaahumanu Road.

She doesn’t have a prison document. Her bail was set at $750,000.

Copyright 2022 Hawaii Information Now. All rights reserved.