MOORHEAD, Minn. (TCN) — A girl allegedly fatally stabbed her ex-boyfriend and informed officers, “Somebody needed to finish it.”
Shortly after midnight on Aug. 4, the Moorhead Police Division responded to Third Avenue North in reference to a attainable stabbing. Police positioned the sufferer, 47-year-old Willard DeGroat, with a stab wound to the chest. He was transported to Sanford Medical Middle and later pronounced deceased.
Officers mentioned the suspect, Connie Jo Frank, additionally 47, returned to the scene, and so they took her into custody. Police didn’t present additional particulars on the connection between the suspect and sufferer, however based on a legal criticism obtained by KSTP-TV, the 2 had beforehand been in a relationship for 5 years.
A witness informed police that he heard DeGroat and Frank arguing that night, and it escalated right into a bodily struggle, KSTP reviews. The witness allegedly requested Frank’s grownup baby to assist.
In keeping with the legal criticism, the witness mentioned when he and Frank’s son returned, they discovered DeGroat with the stab wound and noticed that Frank had fled.
Throughout transit to the jail, Frank allegedly made a number of statements, together with, “I stabbed his a–” and “I’d kill him once more.”
Frank reportedly informed authorities she had been staying at her son’s home, and her ex-boyfriend came to visit and knocked on the home windows. KSTP reviews that Frank admitted she retrieved a knife from the kitchen, stabbed DeGroat as soon as within the chest, and fled to her neighbor’s yard. She reportedly got here again to talk with investigators.
Police recovered a knife close to the scene and obtained surveillance video proof that exposed Frank shouting at DeGroat and DeGroat yelling for somebody to name 911.
Frank stays held within the Clay County Jail on a cost of second-degree homicide.
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