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Woman sentenced to eight years in 2019 fatal stabbing
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A Bernalillo woman was sentenced to eight years in prison Friday in the 2019 killing of a Santa Fe firefighter during what police described as a domestic dispute.
Chrystyne Sanchez, 34, pleaded no contest in October to manslaughter in the fatal stabbing of 35-year-old Christian Reed.
Second Judicial District Judge Lucy Solimon gave Sanchez confinement credit for 753 days she has remained in custody since her arrest in December 2022, court records show.
Sanchez’s attorney, Deidre Ewing, did not immediately respond Friday to a request for comment.
Albuquerque police responded to a domestic dispute on Feb. 4, 2019, and found Reed’s body outside the Chateau apartments near Osuna and San Mateo NE. Sanchez told authorities that she stabbed Reed, her boyfriend, after he threatened her with a knife, the 2nd Judicial District Attorney’s Office said in a statement.
A trail of blood was visible leading to a neighbor’s apartment. Police said at the time that detectives were investigating Reed’s death as a homicide but offered few details about how he died or whether anyone was in custody.
Reed, a father of two, had worked nine months for the Santa Fe Fire Department’s Atalaya Wildland Fire Hand Crew fighting fires in Oregon, California and New Mexico, his supervisor told the Journal at the time.
