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A man has been indicted by a grand jury for the 1st-degree murder of his wife, who was found stabbed to death outside of a Champlin home in March 2022.
James Nyonteh, 45, was indicted Monday for the brutal murder of mother-of-three Peachu Yates, 35, whose body was left outside a family member's home on March 28, 2022.
The Hennepin County Attorney's Office has said it will be seeing an aggravated, longer sentence for Nyonteh, who was initially was charged with 2nd-degree murder.
"Aggravated sentencing is necessary because the victim in this case was treated with particular cruelty and was left in the front yard of a relative's home where she had been living with her children and extended family, many of whom were inside the home
at the time," the attorney's office said in a statement.
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James Nyonteh. Courtesy of Hennepin County Jail.
According to the charges, first responders found Yates not breathing and without a pulse in a front yard on Thousand Pines Entry, and was later pronounced dead at Mercy Hospital from multiple stab wounds to the chest and upper body.
One witness told investigators they'd been on the phone with Yates just prior to the stabbing, and that the 35-year-old mother said her husband had a knife. The witness heard Nyonteh remark he wanted to talk, and then the call cut out.
Nyonteh, whom Yates married in 2021, fled to Fargo, North Dakota following the incident.
At the time of the killing, Nyonteh was being investigated for criminal sexual conduct. Yates and her three children had moved out to live with relatives.
As well as 1st-degree premeditated murder, Nyonteh has been charged with 1st-degree murder while committing domestic abuse with a past pattern of domestic abuse, 2nd-degree intentional murder, and 1st-degree criminal sexual conduct.
“Intimate partner violence is a pervasive crisis in our communities that requires a strong multifaceted response, including aggressive prosecution of those who inflict devastation on families and our community,” Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty
said.
"This is a horrific case and we will seek the maximum sentence possible."
https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/man-indicted-with-1st-degree-murder-in-fatal-stabbing-of-wife
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