BOSTON (WHDH) - A Boston woman who stabbed another woman to death with a kitchen knife during an argument at a home in Dorchester in 2016 was convicted of voluntary manslaughter Thursday, Suffolk County District Attorney John Pappas announced.
A Suffolk Superior Court jury convicted Elba Morales, 49, in the stabbing death of 34-year-old Sasha Morris inside her boyfriend’s home on Fayston Street on Dec. 19, 2016.
Evidence introduced during testimony shows that both women became involved in a verbal altercation that quickly escalated to a physical confrontation, according to Pappas.
A witness intervened in the fight and separated the two women, at which point Morales retrieved a kitchen knife and fatally stabbed Morris twice in the torso, prosecutors said.
Morales fled the building but was arrested outside by Boston police officers responding to a 911 call. Two months later, she was indicted for second-degree murder.
Morales faces sentencing next week.
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