A 29-year-old Chattanooga man told police he stabbed his wife to death after he overheard her talking to another man on her cell phone, according to court records.
Police say Zacarias Salas-Rufino confessed to stabbing his wife, Yessica Ruiz, during a fight about the phone call at their home on Navajo Drive on Sept. 26. Ruiz, 29, died from her injuries on Oct. 1.
Zacarias Salas-RufinoSalas-Rufino told police that he overheard his wife talking to another man, so he went to confront her. On his way to the front room, he grabbed a knife from the kitchen. He said he planned to use the knife to scare Ruiz into giving him her cell phone, according to court records.
However, he said Ruiz struggled with him and during the struggle he stabbed her four times. His wife was stabbed in the chest, neck, arms, legs and back, and was lying in a pool of blood when police arrived at the home around 7 a.m., records show.
She was taken to a local hospital and underwent emergency surgery.