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<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5fbc771d2d1fa6aa4b8b3348946d79f0" style="color:#281e1e;font-size:14px"><strong>Woman kills boyfriend, at home in the Bronx, then tries to claim he was drunk and fatally stumbled into cabinet </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1549e10df3975d99a10473e65f65adad" style="color:#281e1e;font-size:14px"><strong>Medical worker Karlene Payne, 31, knifed Joshua Johnson, 36, in the leg as the two fought inside their apartment in their NYC apt. around 4:15 a.m. Sunday</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a904c570113caa777715591eb0a1f7a9" style="color:#281e1e;font-size:14px"><strong>She then “pulled the knife out of the victim’s leg, causing the wound to bleed excessively and fast”, and stashed the weapon in the dishwater while on the phone with 911 </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ff5ca8de290c8a655df7b9adc1104dfb" style="color:#281e1e;font-size:14px"><strong>On her call she claimed her boyfriend “was drunk and fell into the kitchen cabinet” </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3ded1e359f0670ac0da0aff19d120f25" style="color:#281e1e;font-size:14px"><strong>Payne is charged with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon </strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Karlene Payne knifed Joshua Johnson, [photo], in the leg as the two fought inside their apartment on Lincoln Avenue near Bruckner Boulevard in Mott Haven around 4:15 a.m. Sunday. He bled to death</strong></p>



<p>A Bronx woman fatally stabbed her boyfriend during a fight over the weekend – then brazenly lied to cops that he was drunk and killed himself by stumbling into a kitchen cabinet, prosecutors say. <br>Karlene Payne, a 31-year-old medical worker, knifed Joshua Johnson, 36, in the leg as the two fought inside their apartment on Lincoln Avenue near Bruckner Boulevard in Mott Haven around 4:15 a.m. Sunday, police said. <br>She then “pulled the knife out of the victim’s leg, causing the wound to bleed excessively and fast” — and stashed the weapon in the dishwater while on the phone with 911, a prosecutor said at Payne’s arraignment Monday.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Memorial-for-Joshua-Johnson-in-the-Bronx-1-1024x681.png" alt="" class="wp-image-469008"/></figure>



<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>A memorial for Joshua Johnson in the Bronx after he was allegedly stabbed to death by his girlfriend over the weekend. Karlene Payne then lied to cops that he died after stumbling into a kitchen cabinet, while drunk</strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>After Payne stuck the knife in Johnson&#8217;s thigh, she worsened his condition by pulling out the knife fast, despite having a medical background, prosecutors said</strong></p>



<p>Johnson was rushed to Lincoln Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.<br>The couple had friends over before the deadly violence and started fighting once their pals left, Assistant District Attorney Zaid Abdullah said in court.<br>After Payne knifed her Johnson, she worsened his condition by pulling out the knife, despite having a medical background, Abdullah said. <br>Payne called 911 but concocted a story about what happened, claiming that her beau “was drunk and fell into the kitchen cabinet,” according to Abdullah. <br>She hid the murder weapon in the dishwasher while she was still on the phone with 911, the prosecutor said. </p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Payne, a medical worker knifed her boyfriend during a fight inside their apt. in the Bronx, early Sunday morning. She stashed the murder weapon in a dishwasher while on a 911 call to report the &#8216;self-inflicted accident&#8217;</strong></p>



<p>Further investigation deemed the incident a homicide, and laceration on the victim was identified as a stab wound, police said.<br>“It was not until hours later that she admitted that she did it and blamed the victim for her actions, admitted that she was not honest at first because she thought that they would both get in trouble,” Abdullah said.<br>Karlene Payne was arrested at 12:40 p.m. on Sunday and is charged with second-degree murder, two counts of manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon, according to her criminal complaint.<br>Abdullah requested that she be held without bail, a request that was granted by Judge Eugene Bowen. <br>Her next court appearance is scheduled for Thursday.</p>

NYC woman kills fatally stabs boyfriend, stashes knife in dishwasher while on 911 call claiming he was drunk and fatally stumbled into cabinet
