Woman gets 14 years in stabbing case

TORRINGTON — A city woman was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday after fatally stabbing her boyfriend in 2014.

Tosha Strahan, now 28, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in January in connection with the death of 25-year-old David Vazquez in 2014.

She was sentenced Thursday to two decades in prison, suspended after 15 years, with five years probation, according to court records.

According to an affidavit seeking a warrant for her arrest, Torrington police responded to the North Elm Street home Feb. 9, 2014, after a call from Strahan, who said she had accidentally stabbed her boyfriend.

Vazquez was found to have a stab wound in his upper-left chest area. He was taken to Charlotte Hungerford Hospital, where he died at 4:14 a.m. that morning.

Strahan was originally charged with murder.

According to the affidavit, police believed “Strahan’s obvious intent was to cause the death of Vazquez” based on witness testimony and the depth of the wound.

Strahan told police at the time that the stabbing was an accident. According to the affidavit, she said she had grabbed a knife with the intention of harming herself after Vazquez had said that he was leaving her, which he later walked into.

Witness testimony was inconsistent, according to the affidavit.

Among other statements, one individual reported they saw Strahan jab toward Vazquez’s chest with a knife, after which he fell to the floor.