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Death grip.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Santos Arriola-Rochez and Rinthya Brooks)(Brief article)
About 1 a.m. on August 5, Santos Arriola-Rochez unobtrusively entered a VFW hall in Seattle where a group of Honduran immigrants were holding a cultural event, and he rushed up to his "ex-wife, wrapped himself around her in a tight grip, and repeatedly stabbed her," reported KREM.com. "Those who saw what was happening say the crowd did everything they could to try to get the 39-year-old man off the woman, yelling at him, punching him, even tossing chairs"--to no avail. Finally, a party guest got his licensed pistol and shot Arriola-Rochez.
Even after being shot once, Arriola-Rochez managed to stab his ex-wife again. She died at the scene. He died later. It was the culmination of years of abuse.
Before the stabbing incident took place, the ex-wife, Rinthya Brooks, had long been a victim of her husband, reported the Seattle Times. He ...
- MAN SHOT TO DEATH AS HE KILLS EX-WIFE.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Wong, Brad Gutierrez, Scott August 6, 2007 700+ words
...in the 9100 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Way South. Rinthya Brooks, 33, a Seattle mother of four, was pronounced dead when...according to court records. In March, her husband, Santos Arriola-Rochez, was charged with domestic violence in King County...
