She was stabbed to death ten hours after getting married
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How did an after-wedding party turn into a crime scene?
(Port Jervis, New York) Tina Entwistle-Deleg was a 30-year-old single mother who moved to Port Jervis with her three children to escape a violent past. She and her siblings were very close and eventually, they all followed her to Port Jervis. Surrounded by her family, she finds a job, falls in love a few times, and had three children. Everything changed when she met her neighbor, the perfect gentleman, Luis Deleg. In the beginning, he offered to help out around the house and she always refused. Tina was focused on building a better life with her children and was independent. However, as time went on she started to notice how good Luis was with her children although he did not have any of his own.
They eventually started a relationship that was affectionate and appeared to everyone to be the ideal love. After dating for two years they were engaged and Tina was pregnant, Luis would be having his first child. Over time, her sister and friends began to feel like something was off with Luis and had their doubts. He was never violent towards Tina in front of her family but had shown a jealous streak. They tried to talk her out of the marriage, but she was determined to get married and be happy.
On March 28th, 1998, everyone witnessed Tina and Luis exchange vows and everything seemed perfect. It was a beautiful and happy wedding ceremony. No one knew at the time this day would become a nightmare. Fast forward, to 1:00 am-Ten Hours after the wedding, everyone went to Tina’s house for an after-wedding party when yelling and screaming erupted. People were frantically running everywhere, 911 was called but no one was able to specifically tell the operator exactly what was going on. Her brother was stunned when he heard that someone stabbed Tina. He found Luis’s brother holding a knife, they fought and her brother was able to get the knife away from him.
Suddenly, a body falls from the second-floor window and it is the groom Luis. He is unconscious and covered in blood — wounded but alive. Police arrived and secured the crime scene and tried to calm everyone down. There was a trail of blood leading up to the bedroom and Tina was covered in blood in her wedding dress. She had a gash on her head, defensive cuts on her arms, and blood everywhere — on the walls, the stairwell, and the sidewalk. She was laying next to the crib where her three-month-old slept through it all.
According to guests at the party, Tina was playing matchmaker with her friend and Luis’s cousin. As she played matchmaker, Luis became jealous. The newlyweds went upstairs and in a jealous rage, the groom retrieved a knife and stabbed Tina. She begged for her life and told him his baby girl was in the bed next to them. He continued to stab her to death in her wedding dress. He plead guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 20 years to life.