A day after cutting off a monitor and fleeing, a man was found guilty in absentia of stabbing someone in his house in Brockton, Massachusetts, in 2021, authorities said.
Edsonly Jean-Paul cut off the GPS device about 4 a.m. Thursday and was found guilty on three assault charges Friday after the jury deliberated for two hours, according to the Plymouth County District Attorney's Office.
The 32-year-old was arrested Feb. 6, 2021, by police who were called to a home on Pine Grove Drive in Brockton for a report of an ongoing assault, prosecutors said. Jean-Paul allegedly allowed police into the apartment, where a person had a deep cut on her arm. She was rushed to Boston Medical Center while he was arrested.
At the trial, jurors were told the woman was stabbed with a kitchen knife, which was found in a trash can in the kitchen with blood on it, prosecutors said.
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Brockton and state police are working to find Jean-Paul after he allegedly cut off his GPS bracelet on Thursday, but the judge in the case, Judge William Sullivan, said the trial would continue without him.
If Jean-Paul is caught, his sentencing will be scheduled, prosecutors said.
