BOSTON (AP) - A 38-year-old woman charged with fatally stabbing a man in a Boston park told police that the victim tried to sexually assault her, authorities said.
Mary Fox was held without bail after pleading not guilty Tuesday to murder in connection with the early morning death of Michael Dezrick, 48, in Clifford Park in the city’s Roxbury neighborhood. Fox also had her bail revoked on three open but unrelated cases.
Fox and Dezrick had been involved in a dispute hours before the stabbing, according to a statement from the Suffolk district attorney’s office.
Fox told police that she had asked Dezrick for a cigarette and when she went to take the cigarette, he tried to sexually assault her, according to the Boston Herald. She told police she grabbed a knife that the victim had in his pocket and stabbed him in the stomach. She told police she threw the knife away.
The earlier argument was over a beer, witnesses told police.
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