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“She had black and blue finger marks on her throat, (and) he called her earlier that day and said he was coming to (her) house to kill her,” the woman’s attorney said. “She’s the victim.”
A 24-year-old woman accused of stabbing her boyfriend to death in a South Boston apartment last week pleaded not guilty to manslaughter in court Monday, court records show.
Gisselle Pascual, of South Boston, was arrested Friday night and initially charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon before the charges were upgraded Saturday to manslaughter in South Boston District Court.
Boston police identified the victim as Cambridge man Kyle Bradford, 26, in a press release Monday.
Pascual was held on $100,000 bond after her arraignment, court records show.
Boston police said officers responded to 258 Old Colony Ave. in South Boston just before 6 p.m. Friday. Police found Bradford suffering from a stab wound, and he was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Pascual told detectives that her boyfriend had arrived home drunk on Friday, per a police report obtained by The Boston Globe.
“Pascual stated that an argument then ensued and she took a hold of the victim’s chest as she was yelling at him,” the report said, per the Globe. “Pascual stated the victim then held her neck and pushed her head into a wall.”
Bradford was unarmed at the time of the assault, according to the report, and Pascual grabbed a knife during a break in the physical fight but “did not observe the victim possessing a weapon and was not in fear of the victim possibly possessing a weapon.” The report noted that Pascual had a scratch on her neck and bruise on her elbow, according to the Globe.
Pascual’s lawyer, Peter Marano, said Pascual has no criminal record and is a single mother. Marano said Bradford “has cases in 11 courts in Mass and Georgia.” A search in Cambridge District Court showed six dismissed cases, including charges of domestic assault and battery, against a 26-year-old named Kyle Antonio Bradford.
“She had black and blue finger marks on her throat, (and) he called her earlier that day and said he was coming to (her) house to kill her,” Marano said in an email. “She’s the victim.”
Molly Farrar is a general assignment reporter for Boston.com, focusing on education, politics, crime, and more.
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