South Boston girl fatally stabs boyfriend throughout an argument

“She had black and blue finger marks on her throat, (and) he known as her earlier that day and mentioned he was coming to (her) home to kill her,” the lady’s legal professional mentioned. “She’s the sufferer.”

A 24-year-old girl accused of stabbing her boyfriend to demise in a South Boston condominium final week pleaded not responsible to manslaughter in court docket Monday, court docket information present.

Gisselle Pascual, of South Boston, was arrested Friday evening and initially charged with assault and battery with a harmful weapon earlier than the fees had been upgraded Saturday to manslaughter in South Boston District Court docket.

Boston police recognized the sufferer as Cambridge man Kyle Bradford, 26, in a press launch Monday.

Pascual was held on $100,000 bond after her arraignment, court docket information present.

Boston police mentioned officers responded to 258 Outdated Colony Ave. in South Boston simply earlier than 6 p.m. Friday. Police discovered Bradford affected by a stab wound, and he was transported to a hospital, the place he was pronounced lifeless.

Pascual instructed detectives that her boyfriend had arrived house drunk on Friday, per a police report obtained by The Boston Globe.

“Pascual said that an argument then ensued and he or she took a maintain of the sufferer’s chest as she was yelling at him,” the report mentioned, per the Globe. “Pascual said the sufferer then held her neck and pushed her head right into a wall.”

Bradford was unarmed on the time of the assault, in keeping with the report, and Pascual grabbed a knife throughout a break within the bodily battle however “didn’t observe the sufferer possessing a weapon and was not in concern of the sufferer presumably possessing a weapon.” The report famous that Pascual had a scratch on her neck and bruise on her elbow, in keeping with the Globe.

Pascual’s lawyer, Peter Marano, mentioned Pascual has no prison document and is a single mom. Marano mentioned Bradford “has instances in 11 courts in Mass and Georgia.” A search in Cambridge District Court docket confirmed six dismissed instances, together with costs of home assault and battery, in opposition to a 26-year-old named Kyle Antonio Bradford.

“She had black and blue finger marks on her throat, (and) he known as her earlier that day and mentioned he was coming to (her) home to kill her,” Marano mentioned in an e mail. “She’s the sufferer.”