A 37-year-old Dominican woman was
arrested in Catania Friday on suspicion of trying to kill her ex
boyfriend and his wife at the end of July.
The woman, Ismaela Payano Pichardo, allegedly stabbed the couple
in the carpark of a nightspot in the Sicilian city.
She was arrested for illegally bearing arms and attempted double
homicide.
Pichardo allegedly lay in wait for the couple and attacked them
as soon as they got out of the club, police said.
Police said she acted out of jealousy, and anger at the end of
the relationship.
She first stabbed the love rival, "stabbed through the chest
with a pen knife", police said.
"She then attacked her ex and left the knife sticking out of his
stomach," they said.
She was taken into custody in a Catania jail.
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