{"id":8870,"date":"2011-08-01T18:42:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T22:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8870"},"modified":"2011-11-09T16:48:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T21:48:17","slug":"man-who-stabbed-wife-of-3-days-gets-2-life-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8870","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Stabbed Wife Of 3 Days Gets 2 Life Sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\"><strong>BY IRIS B. HOLTON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\"><strong>Sentinel City Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>On Valentine\u2019s Day, (February 14) 2007, <strong>Ms. Lori Harrison<\/strong> married <strong>Miguel Angel Ruiz.<\/strong> Three days later, she was stabbed several times and her attacker turned the knife on her 10-year-old son when he attempted to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>When police arrived, <strong>Ms. Harrison<\/strong> told them the stabbing resulted from an altercation after she discovered her husband, <strong>Miguel Angel Ruiz,<\/strong> using drugs and alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s deputies arrested <strong>Ruiz<\/strong> that night. He was charged with several crimes ranging from attempted murder to aggravated child abuse. Last week, <strong>Ruiz <\/strong>received 2 life sentences for the attempted murder of <strong>Ms. Harrison<\/strong> and her son, <strong>Damar Warburton.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ruiz<\/strong> was also sentenced to 30 years for aggravated battery with a weapon causing great bodily harm, 30 years for aggravated child abuse, and 5 years for false imprisonment, records show. <strong>[private]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of the verdict, <strong>Ms. Harrison<\/strong> said, \u201cI feel great. I can finally move on with my life. I didn\u2019t know if I was going to stay in Florida, so it was touch and go for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms. Harrison<\/strong> stayed in the hospital for a week following the attack. She has one wound that began at her ear and stopped in the middle of her neck. Her son was stabbed 18 times, but his wounds were superficial and he fully recovered from them.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Trial Delayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Normally, a trial moves through the system in less than 4 years. However, jail records show that <strong>Ruiz<\/strong> was admitted to the State Mental Hospital at least 3 times prior to the stabbing. He was found incompetent and hospitalized 3 times after his arrest in connection with the stabbing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms. Harrison<\/strong> said she and her son testified during the trial. She attended every day. \u201cWhen I heard the verdict, I was squeezing the Victim\u2019s Assistant\u2019s hand so hard. And I asked for a copy of the verdict because I wanted to read it later,\u201d she said.<strong>[\/private]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor \u00a0On Valentine\u2019s Day, (February 14) 2007, Ms. Lori Harrison married Miguel Angel Ruiz. Three days later, she was stabbed several times and her attacker turned the knife on her 10-year-old son when he attempted to intervene. When police arrived, Ms. Harrison told them the stabbing resulted from an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}