A Guatemalan national has been found guilty of attempted assault in the stabbing of his girlfriend, who was the mother of his children.
On November 16, 2024, the victim, who slept in a separate room from Albaro Chacon, was awoken by the sound of her bedroom door slamming open and Chacon moving toward her with a knife pointed at her chest. As Chacon tried to stab her, he told her, “You are going to die here.” The victim fought to redirect the knife away from her chest and Chacon instead stabbed her three times in the arm.
The victim managed to push Chacon off, while keeping him away from her two-year-old niece, who was also in the room. The victim fled the bedroom and went outside, where she flagged down a passing motorist and called 911.
Minutes later, while the victim waited for police, Chacon exited the house and approached her. At the same time, the victim’s six-year-old son emerged from Chacon’s car and begged his father to stop. The victim then saw her five-year-old daughter in Chacon’s car and realized that Chacon must have put them in there before stabbing her because they had been sleeping in their rooms when she went to bed.
The victim ran back into the house to get away from Chacon and saw that the floor, where she had bled profusely had been cleaned, and that the house smelled of bleach. The sheets that were on the bed where she was stabbed had also been removed by Chacon while she was outside calling 911.
When the police arrived, they placed Chacon under arrest and transported the victim to South Shore University Hospital for treatment of her stab wounds.
On November 19, 2025, Chacon, 38, was convicted after a jury trial, heard before Acting Supreme Court Justice Anthony S. Senft, Jr. of the following charges:
- one count of Attempted Assault in the First Degree, a Class C violent felony
- one count of Assault in the Second Degree, a Class D violent felony
- one count of Tampering with Physical Evidence, a Class E felony
- three counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Child, all Class A misdemeanors
Chacon is due back in court on January 5, 2026, for sentencing and faces up to 15 years in prison on the top count.
“The devastating harm inflicted by domestic violence is far-reaching,” said Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney. “The defendant stabbed his girlfriend while children were present. Those children will live with the scars of that night for the rest of their lives. I urge anyone in such a dangerous relationship to reach out for help.”
Any woman who is the victim of domestic violence are urged to call 911 or Suffolk County’s S.T.O.P. Violence Against Women Program at (631) 853-8222.