DESTIN – Lawmen say a man stabbed the couch next to his girlfriend’s head after the two got into an argument.
An Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputy went to a Sun Destin Resort unit on June 24 to investigate a report of an assault. There, he was told by the victim that she and her boyfriend, 45-year-old Diego Joseph Bernal of San Antonio, Texas, were sharing a condo and that he’d become angry with her, thinking she tried to lock him out of the unit.
She said he want into the kitchen and got a large knife out of the drawer, approached her as she lay on the couch and said, “You think you’re so (expletive deleted) smart, you dummy” and stabbed the couch twice next to her head. She ran from the room in her pajamas.
When the deputy tried to summon Bernal from the unit, he wouldn’t come out or unlock the door. The deputy got inside, but Bernal wouldn’t come out of the bedroom and tried to go into the bathroom. The deputy couldn’t subdue him to handcuff him, and it took three law enforcement officers to get him into restraints.
Deputies did find stab marks on the couch.
Bernal was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill, and obstruction without violence.
His court date is Aug. 13.
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Report: Man stabbed couch near woman's head
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