Ex-roommate breaks into old residence, gets stabbed

MIDVALE — It will be up to prosecutors to decide what charges should be filed in connection with a weekend stabbing.

On Sunday, a woman went to a condominium near 7000 S. Spring Crest Court to retrieve personal property from her former roommate, said Midvale Police Sgt. John Salazar.

The woman went with a friend and sent her to the door. When the friend returned to the car with some belongings, the former roommate told her they hadn't given her everything, Salazar said.

The ex-roommate went back to the door herself. After she knocked, the occupants opened and then tried to quickly close the door, he said.

The woman pushed her way through, at which point one of the four occupants of the condo used pepper spray on her, Salazar said. The ex-roommate was only temporarily slowed, however, and this time she kicked in the door and attacked the woman who had just sprayed her, he said.

The ex-roommate threw the woman against a wall and on the ground. That caught the attention of one of the other women in the residence who came out from a back room with a weapon, possibly a knife, and stabbed the former roommate in the back, Salazar said.

The injury was minor as the ex-roommate chased after the woman and then drove herself to the hospital, he said.

Investigators will discuss the case with prosecutors to determine whether the stabber was acting in self-defense and whether the ex-roommate should be charged for breaking in to the condo.

— Pat Reavy