A Connecticut man stabbed his girlfriend to death Tuesday morning in an apartment they shared, police said.
Tyreek Black, a 21-year-old East Haven resident, was arraigned Wednesday for the murder of Destiny Rumley, the Stanford Advocate reported. Rumley was also 21.
Officers responded to Black and Rumley’s apartment building around 8 a.m. Tuesday after reports of a man stabbing a woman in the hallway, according to authorities. Cops arrived to find Black standing in the entryway and a large knife in the hallway outside the apartment, investigators said.
Black briefly barricaded himself inside the apartment upon spotting the officers, police said. One officer walked around to a side window, opened it and removed a 3-year-old child from the apartment.
Shortly afterward, Black opened the door, and cops arrested him after a struggle. Officers subsequently found Rumley inside the apartment suffering from multiple stab wounds. She was transported to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Rumley and Black were dating, but Black was not the father of her 3-year-old child, Rumley’s family told the Advocate. Following Black’s arraignment, several people lunged at him outside the courtroom as he was escorted back to jail.
