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MILLCREEK — A woman who allegedly did not want her ex-boyfriend at her apartment complex, even though he was there to see other people, was arrested Sunday after police say she stabbed the man.
Unified police were called to the Holiday Hills Apartments, 3714 S. Highland Drive, on a report of stabbing. A 39-year-old man with multiple stab wounds was located and transported to a local hospital where he underwent surgery, according to a police booking affidavit. Police say he was stabbed in the chest and arm and was in critical but not life-threatening condition when taken to the hospital.
Officers located Leticia Lynn Solano, 19, who used to live with the victim, and she "admitted to stabbing the victim because she wanted him to leave the apartment complex," the affidavit states, even though he "made no attempts to contact her or bother her in any way."
Solano said she first tried to scare the man with the knife, "but he didn't take her seriously, so she approached him and stabbed him to try to get him to leave. Leticia told me she didn't want to kill the victim, but she also showed indifference to his current condition or whether he was alive or dead," the arresting officer wrote in the affidavit.
Solano was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of aggravated assault resulting in serious injury.
