BY DIANA MOSKOVITZ
DMOSKOVITZ@MIAMIHERALD.COM
A 39-year-old man has been charged with using a kitchen knife to viciously stab his ex-girlfriend and her two children at a South Miami-Dade home. He killed the mother and son and injured the daughter before wounding himself.
Maria Plasencia, 42, and her 19-year-old son Dayron Pastrana, died on the scene after the Jan. 19 attack, according to Miami-Dade police.
Plasencia's daughter, Cynthia Pastrana, was hurt but survived, police said. Two days later, on Friday, she turned 14.
Tomas Sicilia-Perez, 39, also survived and was charged with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of attempted second-degree murder. The attack happened shortly after 7 p.m. at 13315 SW 58th Ter., according to an arrest affidavit released Wednesday.
Sicilia-Perez went to Pastrana's home. At first, the pair had a civil conversation, the affidavit said. But it grew heated.
Sicilia-Perez grabbed a knife from the kitchen and stabbed Plasencia multiple times, the affidavit said. When the son and daughter ran to help their mother, Sicilia-Perez stabbed them, too, before stabbing himself in the chest.
A compilation of daily news articles from around the United States about deaths (including both people and animals) that appear to occur in the context of a past or present intimate relationship, focusing on 2009-present. (NOTE: this blog is limited to incidents that appear in the media and are captured by our search terms. We recognize this is not an exhaustive portrayal of all deaths resulting from intimate violence.) When is society going to realize intimate violence makes victims of us all?
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