MIAMI – A 33-year-old man has been at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center since he confessed on Thursday to have used a large tactical knife to stab a woman several times at an apartment in Miami.
According to detectives, Dayron Cespedes was married to the woman and they had a child together when she kicked him out of the apartment about a month ago and he showed up unannounced on Thursday.
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According to a detective’s report, Cespedes knocked on the door, “the children opened the door” while the woman was in the dining room wearing AirPods, and the two got into an argument when he started to threaten her.
According to the police arrest report, the woman used her phone to record Cespedes without him knowing, and when she demanded that he stop threatening her, he said he was going to “show her a threat” and reached into his backpack.
Detectives reported Cespedes then “withdrew a large tactical knife and stabbed the victim in the abdomen and shoulder area. The victim wrestled with the defendant for the knife causing the defendant to get cut on the right knee.”
The woman ran out of the apartment to ask neighbors for help leaving a trail of blood in the hallway and the street where she lay down until fire rescue personnel arrived to rush her to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, according to police.
Miami-Dade County inmate records show Cespedes, who was born in Cuba, has a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement hold. He is also facing a charge of attempted murder with a deadly weapon, which is not a bondable offense.
Court records show prosecutors filed the case adding charges of aggravated battery with great bodily harm, and two counts of child abuse. Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.