Boston lady struck ex’s new girlfriend with automotive

A Boston lady is accused of attempting to kill her ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend simply minutes after Valentine’s Day got here to a detailed, a chaotic incident in Newton that resulted in prison expenses for each girls. 

Rosa Sanchez, 37, of Mattapan, allegedly struck her ex’s new girlfriend — 22-year-old Esneiry Pimentel-Lugo, of Roxbury — with a automotive on Lagrange Avenue shortly after midnight on Feb. 15, Newton police mentioned. 

In response to a police report filed in court docket, Pimentel-Lugo mentioned she was leaving her boyfriend’s home that night time when she noticed Sanchez’s automotive parked close by on Lagrange Avenue. She received out to confront Sanchez, and the 2 girls allegedly started combating on the street, with Sanchez touchdown some punches and Pimentel-Lugo retrieving a baseball bat to hit Sanchez with it. 

Sanchez allegedly retreated to her personal automotive and drove up onto the curb to strike Pimentel-Lugo, in line with the report. 

However Sanchez’s story differed considerably, police mentioned. She purportedly advised an officer she was at her present boyfriend’s dwelling on Westgate Street when Pimentel-Lugo confirmed up and chased her out. She defined she received into her automotive and ended up on Lagrange Avenue, the place Pimentel-Lugo allegedly started hitting her and her automotive with a baseball bat. 

Sanchez additionally advised police she tried to drive away and nearly struck Pimentel-Lugo, in line with the report. A neighbor recorded a few of the incident, and the footage purportedly confirmed Pimentel-Lugo standing on the facet of the street following the alleged altercation earlier than Sanchez’s automotive “surges ahead” to strike her. 

When officers arrived on the scene, Pimentel-Lugo appeared to have blood on her face and fingers, and Sanchez’s face was additionally bloody. Pimentel-Lugo was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Heart with cuts on her face and fingers and ache in her fingers, legs, and ft. Sanchez was taken to Newton-Wellesley Hospital with cuts on her face and complaints of ache in her arm and ribs. 

Each girls had been later arrested.

Sanchez pleaded not responsible to expenses of tried homicide and assault and battery with a harmful weapon, and Pimentel-Lugo additionally pleaded not responsible to assault and battery with a harmful weapon. Each had been launched on private recognizance, with orders to steer clear of each other. 

“From my consumer’s perspective, she was defending herself,” Pimentel-Lugo’s lawyer, Arthur Kelly, advised Boston.com.

A protection lawyer for Sanchez didn’t reply to a request for remark. Sanchez and Pimentel-Lugo are due again in court docket March 23.

Abby Patkin is a common task information reporter whose work touches on public transit, crime, well being, and all the pieces in between.