EAST HEMPFIELD, Pa. (TCN) — A 49-year-old man was taken into custody for allegedly killing his girlfriend and injuring her brother as a result of he didn’t like her haircut.
On Sunday, Nov. 3, at roughly 1:40 p.m., East Hempfield Township Police Division officers responded to a house on Dell Lane relating to a stabbing. Medics transported two folks, one among whom was the suspect, to Lancaster Common Hospital for laceration wounds. A 3rd sufferer died on the scene.
Lancaster On-line stories police positioned the suspect, Benjamin Garcia Gual, in his automobile with a kitchen knife. His girlfriend, Carmen Martinez-Silva, was discovered useless in a yard. Her brother was reportedly the third sufferer and sustained stab wounds to the bottom of cranium. Officers consider he’ll survive.
Based on WHP-TV, Martinez-Silva’s daughter instructed police that Martinez-Silva slept over at her home on the evening of Nov. 2 as a result of she was “scared” of Garcia Gual. The daughter lower Martinez-Silva’s hair, and it allegedly upset Garcia-Gual a lot that he threatened to stab her. Martinez-Silva reportedly left her daughter’s home and went over to her brother’s on Dell Lane.
Martinez-Silva reportedly requested somebody to tell Garcia Gual that she needed to finish their relationship, however he was not house when that witness glided by. Garcia Gual reportedly confirmed up on the brother’s home in search of his girlfriend, however the one who answered the door claimed she wasn’t there. He left and got here again a couple of minutes later. Martinez-Silva’s brother answered, and Garcia Gual allegedly stabbed him.
WHP stories Martinez-Silva began defending her brother, which led Garcia Gual to stab her repeatedly.
Court docket information present Garcia Gual was arrested on expenses of legal murder, tried legal murder, three counts of aggravated assault, and three counts of recklessly endangering one other individual.
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