A woman form West Berlin has plead guilty to aggravated manslaughter.
Shakeysha Pruitt has pleaded to the charges after allegedly stabbing a man, Kafarr-Logan-Horton in 2013. Last July, Pruitt went over to Horton’s home in Oaklyn where they proceeded to get into a heated argument. During the dispute, Pruitt went into Horton’s kitchen to get a knife which she hid in a towel before going back into the bedroom and stabbing Horton twice in the chest. Horton was sent to the hospital but died a couple hours after the stabbing.
Aggravated manslaughter is a first degree crime in New Jersey, the most serious in the criminal code. It carries a penalty of 10 to 30 years in New Jersey State Prison. This crime is also included under New Jersey’s “No Early Release Act” which means that 85 percent of the sentence would have to be served before parole eligibility.
For more information on this case, access the nj.com article entitled, “West Berlin woman admits stabbing man in Oaklyn.”
