"Sunburned Butt Slap Leads To Beau's Stabbing"

I can just imagine in the mind of the average reader: "He had it coming!" Yes, if she had done the same thing to him and he had stabbed her, do you suppose the "average reader" would think the same thing? Article here. Excerpt:

'According to a police probable cause affidavit, Sherry was cleaning the dishes when her boyfriend, Michael Martinez, “slapped her in the buttocks.” Martinez told a Bethlehem cop that he did this as a “joke” since he “was aware Sherry had sunburn in the area.”

Sherry, however, did not find this amusing and “became immediately agitated.”
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After directing her two children to leave the room, Sherry allegedly “poked” Martinez in the abdomen with the knife, and then stabbed him in the shoulder. Before stabbing him a third time, “Sherry screamed, ‘I’m going to fucking kill you.'”'