Or did she stab him because she found out he paid for it.
from www.nypost.com – A 32-year-old mom of three fatally stabbed her hubby with a pair of scissors after discovering a porn video in their Brooklyn apartment, police sources said today.
The couple’s 4-year-old son was in the apartment at the time, although it’s unclear whether he saw his mother stab Daddy, sources said.
Officers responding to a 911 call at 9:43 p.m. Thursday at 629 Wilson Ave. in the Bushwick section found the dad, Rudolph Henry, 44, stabbed in the chest in the family’s third-floor pad, the sources said.
The victim was rushed to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, authorities said.
Cops took Henry’s wife, Shellyann Henry, to the 83rd Precinct for questioning, and she was later charged with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon.
Police believe that the wife became enraged after she discovered a porn video inside a DVD player in the couple’s apartment, a source said.
The argument grew violent, and the husband grabbed a kitchen knife while the wife wielded a pair of scissors, sources said.
A neighbor, who identified herself only as “Betty” and who lives in an apartment directly below the couple’s third-floor unit, said her 21-year-old daughter had heard the argument.
“She heard them fighting up there,” Betty said. “And yes, we’ve heard fighting before.”
Another neighbor, who lives on the third floor and who did not want to give her name, said she had overheard Shellyann Henry speaking with investigators in the hallway after her arrest.
“She was standing here handcuffed talking to the police,” the woman said.
The neighbor said she overheard Shellyann Henry explain that she and her husband had been watching a show about Africa on television. Her young son was home at the time and about to go to bed, and Shellyann, who worked nights, was preparing to leave the apartment, she said.
According to the neighbor, Henry explained to the police that at a certain point, her husband slapped her two times and said, “Today is going to be my day to go to jail.” It wasn’t clear when the wife had discovered her husband’s X-rated video.
Another resident, Dawn Springs, 26, said the couple just had moved into the brick, three-story walk-up only a few months ago. The pair also has a teenage daughter and infant girl, she said.
Spring said she believed that Rudolph Henry, who worked in construction, was “an abusive man.
“This wasn’t the first incident where there was an altercation,” Spring said, explaining that she had seen Shellyann Henry before with bruises on her body and limping.
“I’m really mad,” Spring said. “She’s a nice person. If I was being attacked by a man, I had a newborn baby by him, and other kids, I’d defend myself.”
Police said they have no records of previous domestic violence reports at the couple’s apartment, a law-enforcement source said.
from www.cbslocal.com – A Brooklyn woman has been charged with murder following the fatal stabbing of her husband in the couple’s apartment.
Thirty-two-year-old Shellyann Henry apparently became enraged and confronted her husband, 44-year-old Rudolph Henry, when she found him watching a pornographic DVD in their home on Wilson Avenue, 1010 WINS’ Terry Sheridan reported.
Sheridan also reported that the couple’s 4-year-old son may or may not have been in the room during the commotion.
Police said the couple got into a fight around 9:40 p.m. Thursday, during which Henry repeatedly stabbed her husband with a kitchen knife.
Henry called 911 and police arrived at the scene to find her husband unconscious and unresponsive with stab wound to his torso. EMS took the man to Wyckoff Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Neighbors said the couple did have a somewhat tumultuous relationship, but never saw it become violent.
Neighbor Dawn Springs told the Daily News that Henry was a “great mom” who just “lost it” when she found the DVD in the apartment.
The couple has three children including a 17-year-old daughter, 4-year-old son and a baby girl.