Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo J. Onofri reported today that an investigation by the Mercer County Homicide Task Force and the Trenton Police Department has led to the arrest of a Trenton woman for fatally stabbing her on-again/off-again boyfriend.
According to Prosecutor Onofri, Tahira Young, 38, is charged with murder and weapons offenses.
She was detained at the scene of the stabbing.
The prosecutor’s office has filed a motion to detain Young pending trial.
According to Prosecutor Onofri, at approximately 2:20 a.m. on Tuesday, February 15, Trenton police were dispatched to an apartment in the 200 block of East Hanover Street on the report of a male stabbed.
Prosecutor Onofri said that Officers arrived on the scene and located the victim, identified as Antwone Barnes, 37, of Trenton, with a stab wound to the chest.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.