Crime & Safety
Heavy Intoxication, Drug Withdrawals Likely Factors In Woman Stabbing Brother In Face At Peninsula Gas Station: DA
According to prosecutors, the siblings had been arguing for days, were heavily intoxicated and had been going through drug withdrawals.
SAN MATEO, CA — A 30-year-old Shady Grove, Ore. resident pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges that she allegedly stabbed her brother three times after she "had enough of him" during an argument at a gas station in August, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney's office.
Evelynn Keziah Enriquez pleaded not guilty to charges of felony assault with a deadly weapon and felony assault creating great bodily injury.
She will go to trial on Oct. 23 at 8:45 a.m., prosecutors said. Enriquez is being held on $250,000 bail in the San Mateo County Jail. A pre-trial conference is scheduled for Oct. 3.
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District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said Enriquez could face seven years in prison, but said, "it's very reasonable" that her case could be settled at the pre-trial hearing.
Prosecutors said that Enriquez, her brother and two other friends were returning from a day Santa Cruz when they stopped at a Shell gas station on South Norfolk Street in San Mateo.
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According to prosecutors, the siblings had been arguing for three or four days, were heavily intoxicated and had been going through drug withdrawals. Enriquez's brother kept getting in her face, to the point where she "had enough", according to prosecutors, and she stabbed him in the face multiple times.
The brother is expected to be out of the hospital by the end of the week, prosecutors said.
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