Told Victim: ‘You Are Going to Die Here’
A Guatemalan national was sentenced to 15 to 17 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of stabbing 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 was convicted by a jury 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
On January 5, 2026, Chacon, 38, was sentenced to 15 to 17 years in prison.
“Nothing about this case was easy, and nothing can undo the harm that was done,” said Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney. “This sentence recognizes the pain endured by the victim and her children, and our thoughts remain with them as they continue the long process of healing.”