Girlfriend, 31, ‘hurled a knife at boyfriend who wouldn’t eat “out of reflex”‘ as ‘he blamed injury on jalapeño mishap’
A WOMAN threw a knife at her lover's leg “out of reflex," police said – but he initially blamed the injury on a jalapeño mishap.
Denaile Barbacow, 31, is now facing assault charges after she allegedly threw the knife at her boyfriend because he wouldn't eat in on Sunday.
The man said he hurt himself while cutting jalapeños when cops responded to reports of a stabbing at his Bechtelsville home.
arrived to find him sitting in a chair in the same room as Barbacow, using a belt as a tourniquet to stem the bleeding from his right leg.
After helping him to control the bleeding, Eastern Berks Regional police Officer Matthew Merry questioned the man's story of a jalapeño mishap.
The officer said it didn't make sense because of the upward direction of the knife, reported the .
He eventually admitted that his partner Barbacow from East Greenville had been the one to hurl the knife at him after an hour-long argument.
He alleged that he had been sitting in a chair while she was holding it in her hand.
After he refused to eat, Barbacow then allegedly hurled the knife at her boyfriend, hitting him in the lower leg.
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She reiterated this account to investigators and was arrested on charges of aggravated and simple assault and possessing an instrument of crimes.
Barbacow's boyfriend was transported to hospital.
Her hearing will take place at Reading Central Court and she remains free in the interim period.