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Woman charged in Greenfield stabbing
A woman is accused of fatally stabbing a man during what Greenfield police described as a "domestic disturbance" on Wednesday morning, Jan. 28.
GREENFIELD, Wis. - A woman is accused of fatally stabbing a man during what Greenfield police described as a "domestic disturbance" on Wednesday morning.
Fatal stabbing
The backstory:
Police said they were called just after 3 a.m. on Jan. 28. When they got to the scene on Heritage Drive, near 55th and Edgerton, they found a stabbing victim unresponsive on the floor of an apartment.
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The stabbing victim, a 32-year-old man, was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office later identified him as Equanis Salinas.
A woman, now identified as Britney Morris, was arrested at the apartment.
Greenfield homicide investigation; man stabbed, woman arrested
Greenfield police arrested a woman and are investigating a homicide after a man was stabbed inside an apartment early Wednesday morning, Jan. 28.
In court
The details:
Milwaukee County prosecutors charged Morris, 29, with second-degree reckless homicide. She made her initial court appearance on Saturday, and her cash bond was set at $75,000.
What they're saying:
Court Commissioner Cedric Cornwall referenced the stabbing victim, previously identified as 32-year-old Equanis Salinas, during Morris' appearance.
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"The criminal complaint states, in part, on page two, she was mad because Salinas did not see anything wrong with his behavior," he said.
Prosecutors said Morris admitted to stabbing the man.
"There was a physical altercation where he strangled Ms. Morris, Ms. Morris struggles to get away," said prosecutor Abigail Heinz. "Ms. Morris then stabs the door 17 times, 12 of which made it through the door because, in her words, ‘she was angry.’ The door opens, and she connects to the victim's chest, stabbing him."
However, Morris' defense attorney said the stabbing was self-defense.
"(He) was beating her up, strangling her, she is screaming for help. There is no one there to help her, she is there by herself," said defense attorney Nicole Muller. "Morris is a woman who had been battered and abused for years, and this is not a woman who wanted the deceased to pass."
If the case goes to trial, self-defense is considered a valid defense if it was a "reasonable" way of stopping what the law describes as "unlawful interference."
The Source: FOX6 News referenced information from the Greenfield Police Department and Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office, and reviewed footage of Morris' initial court appearance.