Woman With Domestic Assault Convictions Racks Up Another Charge After Stabbing
LAKE ORION (WWJ) - An 46-year-old Oakland County woman with a history of domestic violence is facing new charges after allegedly stabbing her boyfriend.
Lynnette Marie Gulla was charged Wednesday with assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder -- a 10 year felony. Bond was set at $25,000.
Police say the whole thing unfolded around 2:30 a.m. Monday after dispatchers received a 911 call from a man at a home on West Flint Street, near Park Boulevard in Lake Orion, reporting that his girlfriend had just stabbed him.
Lake Orion and Oxford police officers responded to the home to find the 41-year-old man with a stab wound to the upper back and multiple superficial wounds to his neck area. The wounds were serious but not life threatening, police said.
The victim told police that his girlfriend, Gulla, left in his vehicle around 9 p.m. and returned with heavy damage to the vehicle, including a deployed airbag. An argument ensued and at some point, the man said he decided to stop arguing and go to bed.
The man told police that after getting into bed, he felt his girlfriend "punching" him in the back and neck. He then realized Gulla apparently had a knife in her hand and that he had been stabbed.
Officers spoke with Gulla, who was still at the home, and determined she was highly intoxicated, according to police. She also "had severe wounds to the fingers of her right hand, that were consistent with her hand slipping down the blade of the knife."
Officers searched the home and recovered the knife believed to have been used in the assault.
The victim sought his own medical treatment. Gulla was arrested and transported to an area hospital for treatment of her wounds, before being lodged in the Oakland County Jail.
Officers then went back out and located a crash scene. They also recovered evidence linking the victim's vehicle to the crash. Authorities say that part of the investigation is continuing.
Gulla, who has two previous convictions for domestic assault, is due back in court on Dec. 18.