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Man to plead guilty in fatal stabbing of girlfriend's father on Navajo Nation
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A Shiprock man has agreed to plead guilty to fatally stabbing his girlfriend’s father in the neck in June in the Navajo Nation.
Armondo Paul, 25, is in federal custody and charged with second-degree murder. He faces a possible life sentence.
On June 27, Navajo Nation Police Department officers were dispatched around 3:15 a.m. to a stabbing in Shiprock, where they found a man dead on the ground, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the state of New Mexico.
The following evening, Paul was detained. He told police on June 26 around 10 p.m. that he had gotten off of work and went to his girlfriend’s house when he overheard the woman tell her father that she did not want to see Paul, according to the complaint. Paul told police that 15 minutes later, the woman came out of her house to take Paul home.
“(Paul)’s feelings went from wanting to destroy something to wanting to kill himself,” the complaint states.
Paul told federal authorities he returned to his girlfriend’s house around 2 a.m. with a kitchen knife and the intention of harming himself, according to the complaint. Paul cut off the power to his girlfriend’s house to get her attention.
Paul kicked in the door to the woman’s house and grabbed her arm and her father grabbed Paul to separate the two, the complaint states. Paul told federal authorities he reached into his pocket, grabbed the kitchen knife and stabbed the man in the neck.
After stabbing the man, Paul told federal authorities he went into his girlfriend’s room, sat on the bed and “announced he was going to kill himself because he was a monster and he deserved it,” according to the complaint.
A witness told federal authorities that Paul fled from the area when police arrived, the complaint states.
