Police originally said 24-year old Jamie Marsee struck and killed a man with her vehicle on Thursday afternoon at the OmniSource corporation on 2001 E.
Pontiac Street, but the victim actually died of stab wounds.
Petroviak.thanks for joining us.new details tonight about a man who died in the parking lot of a fort wayne business.
Police now say the man was ?not?
Hit by a car but was stabbed to death by his wifewith a fishing knife.fox 55's mallory beard tells us what police say led to the confrontation.
It started as an argument between a husband and wife and ended with him dead and her in jail.fort wayne police say 24-year-old jamie marsee drove to the omnisource on east pontiac drive where her husband worked and demanded he give her their child seat out of his car.sgt.
Sofia rosales- scatena//fort wayne police department :14-:28"i believe there are children involved.
The argument was over a carseat at the business.
Retrieval of the carseat.
There had been some family problems at home which bled over into the workplace."
A police affidavit says her husband 24-year-old austin harrison was later seen by a witness chasing marsee around the car before putting her in a bear hug.according to the affidavit the witness tried to separate them and when he did harrison put his hand over his own blood-stained shirt before dropping to his knees and collapsing.sgt.
Sofia rosales-scatena//fort wayne police department "coroner's report shows that he had some type of injury to the chest.
Some type of fish- fileting knife."
Police say marsee tried to get harrison into the car but then drove away without him.officers found her about an hour later and questioned her.the affidavit says marsee told them that harrison had thrown the carseat out of his vehicle which made her so made she grabbed a fileting knife from the back of her s-u-v and stabbed his tire.when he had her in the bearhug marsee told police they were struggling over the knife and that he stabbed himself when she let it go.but investigators say marsee told another witness after the stabbing quote "oh my god i think i killed austin.'
And asked the witness to get rid of the knife.sgt.
Sofia rosales- scatena//fort wayne police department "probably just the way he fell and the way the female had taken off from the scene led people to believe that she'd possibly hit him with the vehicle.
Turns out none of that was true .
It was strictly just the stabbing that caused the death."
In fort wayne, i'm mallory beard.
Fox 55 news fort wayne police say they fort wayne police say they initially believed harrison was hit by a car because of the way he was positioned when they arrived, but harrison was confirmed to be stabbed.marsee is now in the allen county jail on charges of aggravated battery domestic battery and battery
Fort Wayne police have arrested a 24-year-old woman accused of running over and killing a man in a business parking lot Thursday.