In the slum neighborhood of Capotillo, Melina Lorenzo Diaz has been accused of stabbing and killing Orlando Contreras de Leon (El Lisiador) after he hit her while attempting to attack her with a knife. In the struggle, the woman seized the knife and was able to kill her attacker. According to the police report, the assailant was drunk at the time of the fight, as he tried to kill her with a knife after she rejected his advances. Judge Amaurys Marcos, the Judge for Permanent Attention for the National District, sent Melina to Najayo Women’s prison in San Cristobal for three months of preventive custody.