UPDATE: Wife accused of nail-clipper stabbing death told police she only meant to scare husband, cops say

A 30-year-old woman stabbed a man to death with fingernail clippers after chasing him from the mobile home home they share in Cumberland County during a fight, authorities said Tuesday.

Katheleen Ayala, told investigators she got into a physical fight with Axel Torres, 35, in their trailer at the Country Meadows mobile home park on South 2nd Street in Millville and that she chased after him when he left, according to the Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office.

An altercation outside left Torres unconscious with several stab wounds, including one to his left leg “allegedly having been inflicted by a nail clipper,” prosecutors said.

Police found Torres unresponsive around 1 a.m. Sunday in front of a unit in the mobile home park. He was hospitalized in critical condition at Cooper University Hospital, Camden, where he died Monday morning, authorities said.

Ayala has been charged with murder and weapons offenses. She is being held in Cumberland County Jail pending court hearings.

Authorities have not revealed the relationship between the Ayala and Torres.

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