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June 5, 2008

W. Warwick woman indicted in Gonsalves' killing

Abimbola O. Johnson, the West Warwick woman accused of fatally stabbing Natasha Gonsalves in March, has been indicted on one murder count.

A statewide grand jury handed up the indictment Wednesday, and Johnson, who is being held without bail at the Adult Correctional Institutions in Cranston, is scheduled for a June 20 arraignment in Kent County Superior Court, according to a news release today from the Attorney General's Office.

The police have said that on the night of March 20, Gonsalves and two friends followed Johnson to Gonsalves' 114 Pepin St. home. Johnson and one of Gonsalves’ friends argued, potentially over a man, when the police said Johnson went inside and returned with a kitchen knife. The women argued, Johnson pulled the knife from her waistband and stabbed Gonsalves, the police said.

Officers arrived to find Gonsalves lying on the ground as neighbors tried to help her. She was pronounced dead at Kent Hospital, in Warwick.

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney, with reports from Journal archives

Posted by Mike McKinney  at 3:44 PM | Permalink

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