Woman accused of killing her 2-year-old son’s father appears in Miami-Dade court

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – A 33-year-old mom used to be in tears shaking her head in disbelief on Monday in Miami-Dade County court.

Kaity Elese Maldonado stood ahead of Miami-Dade Circuit Juge Leon M. Firtel dressed in a wooded area inexperienced anti-suicide smock.

Maldonado’s arms have been in handcuffs. Hours previous, they have been coated in blood, and he or she held a 6-inch kitchen knife whilst on her knees in the driveway of a house in Miami Gardens, police stated.

“He attacked me and I stabbed him, I stabbed him, I stabbed him at least 13 times,” Maldonado stated whilst at the driveway, in line with police. “He is in the kitchen, lying down. He needs, he needs ambulance, he needs ambulance because I think I stabbed him in the neck too.”

According to the arrest file in the case, a witness stated Maldonado and the person have been in an on-and-off romantic courting for roughly two years, they usually have been residing with their 2-year-old son for roughly 5 months in Miami Gardens.

“You tried to choke me! And see, he bit me! He bit me! Now I am grabbing a knife and I don’t give a [expletive],” Maldonado stated, in line with the witness who recorded a video and gave it to police.

The witness reported Maldonado rushed to the kitchen, and grabbed the knife whilst he used to be on a bar stool pronouncing, “Why are you doing this? I didn’t do nothing!”

According to the police file, the witness noticed how a crazed Maldonado stabbed him a number of occasions as he struggled to disarm her and collapsed.

Police officials reported discovering the person in a while ahead of 4:15 p.m., on Sunday, mendacity on his left aspect in a pool of blood in the home west of Northwest 177 Street and 37 Court.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue workforce used a helicopter to get him to Aventura Hospital the place a physician pronounced him useless after 5 p.m., on Sunday.

On Monday, in bond court, prosecutors asked pre-trial detention. Firtel stated he had discovered possible motive for the rate of second-degree homicide and denied bond.

Records display correctional officials held Maldonado on the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Monday afternoon.

Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Laura Anne Stuzin used to be set to preside over the home violence case.