ARRESTED: Shenika Muhammed on St. Thomas
[ad name=”HTML-68″]CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A woman was charged Saturday with third-degree assault/domestic violence after she allegedly stabbed a male acquaintance and destroyed his property, according to authorities.
The Virgin Islands Police Department’s Domestic Violence Unit traveled to the Schneider Regional Medical Center to interview the victim about an alleged assault at about 7:30 a.m. Saturday.
Police met with the man, who was being treated for knife wounds at the hospital and he told them a woman he knows stabbed him twice in his arm with a kitchen knife and destroyed items in his apartment.
The man had two visible cuts on his forearm that required stitches, according to hospital officials.
Police also went to the man’s property at an undisclosed location and said that items in it had indeed been “destroyed.”
Shenika Muhammed, 33, of St. Thomas was arrested later that day after being positively identified by the victim.
As per the territory’s domestic violence statute, no bail was offered to Muhammed.
She was remanded to the Bureau of Corrections (BOC) pending her advisement hearing.