MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – A 33-year-old mother was in tears shaking her head in disbelief on Monday in Miami-Dade County court.
Kaity Elese Maldonado stood before Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Leon M. Firtel wearing a forest green anti-suicide smock.
Maldonado’s hands were in handcuffs. Hours earlier, they were covered in blood, and she held a 6-inch kitchen knife while on her knees in the driveway of a home in Miami Gardens, police said.
“He attacked me and I stabbed him, I stabbed him, I stabbed him at least 13 times,” Maldonado said while on the driveway, according to police. “He is in the kitchen, lying down. He needs, he needs ambulance, he needs ambulance because I think I stabbed him in the neck too.”
According to the arrest report in the case, a witness said Maldonado and the man had been in an on-and-off romantic relationship for about two years, and they had been living with their 2-year-old son for about five months in Miami Gardens.
“You tried to choke me! And see, he bit me! He bit me! Now I am grabbing a knife and I don’t give a [expletive],” Maldonado said, according to the witness who recorded a video and gave it to police.
The witness reported Maldonado rushed to the kitchen, and grabbed the knife while he was on a bar stool saying, “Why are you doing this? I didn’t do nothing!”
According to the police report, the witness saw how a crazed Maldonado stabbed him several times as he struggled to disarm her and collapsed.
Police officers reported finding the man shortly before 4:15 p.m., on Sunday, lying on his left side in a pool of blood in the house west of Northwest 177 Street and 37 Court.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel used a helicopter to get him to Aventura Hospital where a doctor pronounced him dead after 5 p.m., on Sunday.
On Monday, in bond court, prosecutors requested pre-trial detention. Firtel said he had found probable cause for the charge of second-degree murder and denied bond.
Records show correctional officers held Maldonado at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Monday afternoon.
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Laura Anne Stuzin was set to preside over the domestic violence case.