STOUGHTON, MASS. (WHDH) - A Stoughton man charged with stabbing his wife to death in an apparent domestic violence-related attack earlier this year pleaded not guilty to a murder charge Monday.
Ilton Rodrigues, 48, was arraigned on a murder charge stemming from the May 4 death of his wife Telma Bras, 43, also of Stoughton..
Officers responding to a Stoughton apartment allegedly found Bras dead in the living room and Rodriguez with a knife still protruding from his body.
A 17-year-old girl heard the disturbance and alerted a family member, who in turn notified the authorities, according to the district attorney’s office. A 7-year-old boy was also home at the time of the murder.
Rodrigues will be back in court in September.
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