Export couple arrested after stabbing
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An Export couple is in the Westmoreland County Prison after an argument turned into someone getting stabbed early Sunday, according to state police.
Devon M. Nuccetelli, 42, is charged by state police with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, harassment, reckless endangerment and simple assault after the 4:20 a.m. altercation inside her Kennedy Avenue apartment that resulted in the stabbing of Daniel H. Paine Jr., 34.
Paine was treated and released from Forbes Regional Hospital in Monroeville for a stab wound to his left shoulder. Trooper Gregory Frank charged Paine with reckless endangerment, simple assault, strangulation and making terroristic threats.
Nuccetelli told investigators the argument began about 1:30 a.m. Sunday when Paine came to her apartment and demanded money to buy beer and she refused, according to court documents. Nuccetelli alleges Paine was under the influence of alcohol after drinking at a friend’s home.
Frank alleges that Paine became angry, allegedly pulled out a “large military-style knife” and began stabbing Nuccetelli’s table and couch. Then, Nuccetelli told investigators he began poking the knife toward her face stating, ‘I’ll kill you…,” according to court documents.
When Paine set down the knife, Nuccetelli told troopers she covered it with a blanket and Paine allegedly began choking her after she refused to let him borrow her car.
“(Paine) picked up his guitar like he was going to swing it at me,” Frank quoted Nuccetelli as telling him.
Nuccetelli told officers that she retrieved the knife for protection and Paine claimed “she wouldn’t use it.”
“I put the knife into (Paine) to show him not to hurt me anymore,” Frank quoted Nuccetelli as telling troopers in an interview.
Nuccetelli then ran to a neighbor’s apartment and called police.
Frank reported Paine was standing outside the apartment drinking a beer when troopers arrived.
According to Frank, Paine denied assaulting Nuccetelli. He told police she began arguing with him and he picked up his guitar to play it to “get away from her.”
Paine alleges Nuccetelli then grabbed the knife from the left hip area of his pants and stabbed him in the back of his left shoulder as he leaned over to set down the guitar.
Paine was ordered held in the county prison after failing to post $25,000 bond, while Nuccetelli was ordered held on $10,000 bond. A preliminary hearing is scheduled Dec. 1.