
DA: Wife Killed Husband After Finding Hickey
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'MEDFORD (CBS) – A woman was ordered held without bail Monday charged with killing her husband in Medford.
Police found 34-year-old Troy Burston wounded outside a home on Exchange Avenue at 10:40 p.m. Sunday. He was not wearing a shirt and had been stabbed in the chest.
He was rushed to Lawrence Memorial Hospital where he died.
Police arrested his wife, 39-year-old Shawntina Burston.
Investigators say the two had come home from a birthday party and began arguing and hitting each other. She allegedly found a hickey on his neck and stabbed him with a cooking knife.
“This is another troubling incident of domestic violence turned fatal,” Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone said in a statement Monday.
“We allege that the victim was fatally stabbed by his wife during an argument, sadly leaving two young children behind.”'
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