Nassau Man Sentenced For Attempted Murder Of Girlfriend

A Roosevelt man was sentenced on Thursday to 14 years in prison and five years’ post release supervision for attempting to kill his girlfriend in 2014, according Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas.

Tremaine Ashley, 41, pleaded guilty on Nov. 8 to second-degree attempted murder.

“Tremaine Ashley terrorized his girlfriend and nearly took her life when he stabbed her in the chest and slit her throat with a knife,” Singas said in a press release. “The victim needed extensive surgery to recover from her injuries."

On July 16, 2014, Ashley was at the apartment he shared with his then-girlfriend on Park Avenue in Roosevelt. She was breaking up with him and kicking him out, when he grabbed a knife and stabbed her multiple times in the chest and then slit her throat, the DA says. The woman suffered a punctured lung, slit throat and stab wounds, but has since recovered from her injuries.

After he stabbed his girlfriend, Ashley fled the scene in his Dodge Charger. He drove onto the Southern State Parkway and exited at Baldwin Road, where he crashed into a minivan at the intersection of Downs Road and Baldwin Road in Hempstead, causing minor injuries to the five people inside, who were on their way to church.

Ashley abandoned his car and fled on foot, and was found by police officers walking on Baldwin Road with self-inflicted injuries to his wrists. He was later placed under arrest.

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