Marlborough Fatal Stabbing: Woman Charged With Manslaughter

MARLBOROUGH, MA — A Marlborough woman has been arrested and charged in connection to the fatal stabbing of a man during a domestic incident on Wednesday night.

Darlene Carreras, 37, a Marlborough resident, was arrested over the weekend in Worcester and has been charged with manslaughter. She was ordered held in jail ahead of an Aug. 23 dangerousness hearing, according to Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan.

According to Ryan, Carreras stabbed Eric Murray, 45, inside an apartment at the Stone Gate complex along St. Ives Way at around 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Murray died at UMass Memorial in Worcester, and Carreras was treated for cuts on her hands.

"The preliminary investigation suggests that Carreras and Murray had been in a romantic relationship and had been seeing each other regularly. Last week, the victim went to the defendant’s home and the two of them got into an altercation during which time Carreras allegedly stabbed the victim in the chest killing him. After stabbing Murray, the defendant allegedly applied pressure to the wound but did not call 911 and instead called a friend to come over for help," Ryan said in a news release.

Murray's son was in the apartment when the stabbing happened, but was not harmed.

State police said members of the agency's fugitive team assisted Marlborough police in arresting Carreras on Saturday at a relative's home along Blossom Street in Worcester.

The fatal stabbing is the second homicide in Marlborough in 2023. In June, Westborough resident Daniel Uhlman stabbed his mother, Nancy, 10 times with a butter knife and smashed her head on the pavement before ramming her with his truck in the parking lot of a local hotel, prosecutors said.