His contact was listed as “baby daddy” in her phone. In the hours after she left, records show he tried to contact her more than 100 times, mostly through text messages and missed phone calls. She testified that she believed the relationship was over. She left and texted him that he couldn’t live with her. “I had visions of the perfect family,” she said in court.īut on the morning of May 30 they argued. But shortly before the stabbing they were talking about getting back together, despite a court order prohibiting contact. He assaulted her in the past, including once with a Taser and one time that caused injuries. They had a 10-month old son at the time of the stabbing. They had dated for about a year and a half to two years before breaking up. Yet he was the random victim.Ĭourt heard VanKoughnett and Duarte had a troubled relationship. He was saying things including: “I’ll kill you” and “Wanna get stabbed?” witnesses told police.Īmong the group standing outside, enjoying their night was Tyquan Brown, a man VanKoughnett had only met maybe once or twice before.
VanKoughnett testified it was Duarte, wearing a familiar camouflage jacket, jeans and Gucci hat, his face covered, who ran over to them, yelling and swinging a knife. N., where she had gathered with some friends to watch a basketball game and have some drinks. When he couldn’t find her, he enlisted the help of one of VanKoughnett’s sisters, Torri Calverly, and her boyfriend, Anthony Plaenk, telling them VanKoughnett was drunk and needed help, McKenzie said.ĭuarte eventually found VanKoughnett outside 180 Sherman Ave. In the messages he threatened to hurt others and himself if she didn’t come back to him. He spent the next eight hours repeatedly messaging, calling and looking for Hope VanKoughnett, assistant Crown Jill McKenzie said during the opening of Duarte’s first-degree murder trial Wednesday. That’s what Dylon Duarte texted his ex-girlfriend and the mother of his son at 4:01 p.m. “Like I’m going to hurt people you don’t know like just some random person I want my family back.”
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