Crime & Safety
Woman Who Stabbed Employee At FL Smoke Shop Charged With Attempted Murder
A woman walked into a Largo smoke shop and stabbed an employee on Monday morning, police said.
LARGO, FL — A woman was arrested after stabbing an employee at a smoke shop at 14111 Belcher Road on Monday afternoon, Largo Police Department said in a news release.
When officers responded to the shop just before noon, they found “a good Samaritan actively holding down the suspect,” Yesenia Sofia Gonzalez-Aleaga, 22, police said.
Once she was taken into custody, officers rendered aid to the victim until paramedics arrived to bring him to an area hospital with serious injuries.
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The store’s surveillance footage showed Gonzalez-Aleaga enter the store and ask the victim for a product on a lower shelf.
As the victim bent down, she grabbed a knife from her purse and stabbed him multiple times, police said.
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He is in stable condition and expected to make a full recovery.
Detectives are working to determine a motive for the stabbing as Gonzalez-Aleaga and the suspect don’t know each other, police said.
She was charged with attempted murder in the first degree.
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