Local woman sentenced to prison for stabbing
A South Union Township woman who stabbed her boyfriend earlier this year was sentenced to nine to 23 months in jail on Tuesday in Fayette County Court. Sabrina Laredo Cullen, 25, stabbed her boyfriend, Charles Tomovchik, 33, in the arm and leg with steak knives at the home they share on Shellie Street on Jan. 3.
The couple had been arguing before the stabbing, and state police said that Cullen made reference to the television show “Snapped” before she stabbed Tomovchik. “Snapped” is a show on the Oxygen network that profiles women who kill.
Police said the couple argued, and at some point, Cullen went into the kitchen and got a long-bladed chef’s knife and started sliding it under her chin, asking Tomovchik if he had ever seen the show.
When he told her he hadn’t seen the show, Cullen told him she was going to kill him, and charged at him with the knife, police said. Tomovchik kicked the knife away, and Cullen went to the kitchen and retrieved two steak knives, police said.
Police said she stabbed him in the left thigh with one of the knives, and buried the second one in his left arm all the way to then handle.
Tomovchik called 911 from a neighbor’s residence and went to the hospital for treatment. When he arrived, he still had the knife in his arm.
Last week, Cullen entered a guilty plea to terroristic threats, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person and harassment before Judge John F. Wagner Jr. In exchange, prosecutors dropped charges of attempted homicide and aggravated assault.