FORT PIERCE — A man stabbed several times was taken to a local provisional trauma center early Tuesday, though his injuries are not thought to be life-threatening, a St. Lucie County Fire District spokeswoman said. (more…)

PORT ST. LUCIE — It was an “all night” argument over infidelity — complete with a purported audio tape of the “cheating” — that culminated with a woman stabbing her boyfriend of several years, according to a recently released arrest affidavit and police.

Police said they met the victim Thursday morning at St. Lucie Medical Center, where his girlfriend, Jennece Cordella Shaw, drove him after the incident. (more…)

A Palm City man reported he was stabbed early this morning, and detectives are now investigating the incident.

Coquina Cove resident Paul Embry, 33, told Martin County Sheriff’s detectives that he saw a teen by his vehicle at about 5:30 a.m. He said he confronted the boy and then felt what seemed like a “bee sting” in his abdomen, according to sheriff’s spokeswoman Rhonda Irons.

A relative drove Embry to the hospital for treatment. His injuries do not seem to be life-threatening, Irons said.

Detectives have not yet recovered a weapon.

A Fort Pierce woman that was arrested and charged with numerous counts of animal cruelty may have stabbed one of her dead dogs.

St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Deputies found a sick home full of animals, some dead and starving, with an odor of death reeking from it when they arrived on the scene Monday.

Deputies arrived at the home on North Kings Highway after the landlord of the home noticed a foul smell coming from it. The landlord also said he hadn’t seen his tenant, Michele Nunziata, in several days.

Deputies on scene said they were met with “an overwhelming foul odor of decomposition.” They also said they could hear several dogs barking from inside the home.

As deputies tried to get Nunziata to come back to the home and allow them inside, she repeatedly told deputies over the phone that she was “too busy.” When she did arrive home and let deputies inside she admitted to burying dogs in her front yard, though deputies could not find grave sites.

When Animal Control Officers arrived they took inventory of the home and found:

3 very slim Pit Bulls

A Blood Hound suffering from malnutrition

2 Cockatiels without food or water

2 ferrets without food or water

1 Black Wolf and 1 Doberman Pincher locked in a kennel laying in feces with no food or water, suffering from malnutrition

3 dead dogs locked in a kennel, decaying

Deputies and Animal Control Officers also found rabbits caged without food or water and a goose.

Nunziata has been charged with 6 felony accounts of animal cruelty as well as 11 Misdemeanors.

In a follow-up report, Animal Care and Control Officers say it appeared one of the deceased dogs left to rot in a cage had been stabbed in it’s armpit.

Officers said it appeared that most of the dead animals died of neglect.

Nunziata told officers she never neglected her animals and “would get them all back.”

Marianne Wellendorf
WPEC Channel 12

FORT PIERCE — A man was taken to the hospital in serious condition after getting stabbed last night.

At about 10 p.m. St. Lucie County Fire District crews responded to the 100 block of N. 29th Street, where they picked up a man who had been stabbed, according to district spokeswoman Catherine Chaney. The man was described to be in his early 20s.

Fort Pierce police were also called to the scene.

INDIANTOWN — An inmate was stabbed to death today in the recreational yard at Martin Correctional Institution, authorities said.

The stabbing occurred at about 9:30 a.m., said Jo Ellyn Rackleff, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Corrections. The inmate has not been identified because next of kin is still being notified, she said. No weapon has been identified.

A criminal investigation is underway, she said.

INDIANTOWN — A 15-year-old boy was stabbed during a fight that broke out during a party over the weekend.

Shortly before midnight on Saturday, Martin County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a home on 172nd Avenue where they found 15-year-old Andres Felix stabbed in the back.

The teen was transported to St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach for treatment.

Witnesses told investigators that there had been a party at another home a few blocks away when several people who hadn’t been invited showed up.

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PORT ST. LUCIE — Those who knew Michael Gary Sherman described him Thursday as a gentle man, the type of person who loved reading, liked Jim Morrison’s music, but didn’t like being around a lot of people.
Sherman, 51, also was an alcoholic who “drank all the time,” had a criminal history and lived under a bridge, they said.
“He was the kind of guy that would walk along in the park and see a baby bird out of the nest and (try) to put it back or take it home and nurse it until it was well enough to fly,” said Linda McCormick, Sherman’s former mother-in-law. “He had a kind heart, he just had some major issues.”
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House where man who allegedly attacked 87-year-old grandmother was stabbed.

Police say that the woman’s grandson, 39-year-old Scott Smith, saw the man on top of her in her bed at the house in the 2000 block of Benedictine Street.

He then rushed to the kitchen, grabbed a butcher knife and stabbed the man, police said. (more…)