Lang
7/20/23
Allegedly stabbing her husband in front of the couple’s children has led to an Iowa City woman’s arrest.
Iowa City Police were called to an address on Taylor Drive just after 4:45 Wednesday afternoon. The caller told police that their neighbor’s children told them their mother had stabbed their father.
Arriving officers found the father with a large laceration on the left side of his head. The man’s wife, 36-year-old Angelica Fernandez Martinez, allegedly claimed her husband had slipped and hit his head in the kitchen. Police say there was no blood in the kitchen, but there were blood stains by the window in the living room and on a wall in a hallway.
The children were allegedly present at the time of the stabbing. Fernandez Martinez was booked into the Johnson County Jail just after 6:15 Wednesday night and charged with Domestic Abuse Assault Causing Injury and Child Endangerment. If convicted on both charges, she faces a maximum of three years in jail.