Florida Woman Arrested for Stabbing Uncle after Argument and Spraying Each Other with Kitchen Faucet
CLERMONT, Florida—An 18-year-old woman apparently mad at her uncle for being drunk and sleeping on the floor stabbed him with a kitchen knife, grazing his liver, an injury serious enough to require him to be transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC) as a trauma alert, according to an arrest affidavit.
Lake County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to Lake Ridge Circle in unincorporated Clermont after South Lake Hospital reported the victim of a stabbing left the emergency room without receiving treatment early Wednesday morning. When deputies arrived at the home, they found the victim sitting in a recliner sweating profusely and covered with a white sheet. He was very pale and continually stated he needed rest, the arresting deputy noted in the affidavit.
Lake EMS responded and found the wound was several inches deep and actively bleeding; the victim was transported to ORMC as a trauma alert.
The victim’s mother, who was in the home, first said her son was putting dishes away and accidently dropped a knife into his own stomach, she later confessed to lying after another relative said he heard the victim and Cori Lynne Ralston, 18, arguing.
That witness said he heard the two arguing in the kitchen and things “escalated.” He said Ralston yelled at the victim and then told Ralston’s mother she needed to tend to the victim’s heavy intoxication. He said he heard “what sounded like Cori throwing the kitchen knife at (the victim.)” When asked by a deputy if he saw anything happen, the witness would not give a straightforward answer, the affidavit states.
Deputies questioned Ralston, and she said she tripped over her uncle sleeping on the living room floor when she got up to make something to eat. She began yelling at him to get up and he began arguing with her. She said he walked over to her in the kitchen, and she began spraying him with the kitchen faucet. The victim grabbed the faucet from her and started spraying Ralston and she said she grabbed the knife and began waving it around. Ralston said it may have hit him while she was waving it around, according to the affidavit.
“Based on the severity of the puncture wound, it can be inferred that there had to be substantial force behind the knife in order to have it enter (the victim’s) body to the point where the knife is grazing (the victim’s) liver,” the deputy noted in the affidavit.
Ralston was arrested for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and transported to the Lake County Jail, where she was released on $10,000 bond.
