Man said he stabbed ex-girlfriend to death 'as a joke' after he saw her at a restaurant with another man

A Pennsylvania antheral accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend successful a acceptable of jealousy and past saying helium did it "as a joke" volition walk decades down bars.

Samuel Lopez-Ordones, 34, pleaded blameworthy to third-degree murder successful the decease of 27-year-old Daniela Allende, the Reading Eagle reported. He was sentenced to 20 to 40 years successful authorities prison, the maximum imaginable condemnation for that crime.

The suspect had primitively been charged with first-degree murder, aggravated assault, and different charges, tribunal records reviewed by Law&Crime show. However, those charges were reportedly dismissed with the negotiated plea deal.

According to tribunal documents obtained by the section newspaper, Lopez-Ordones and Allende had been successful a narration for astir 10 years when, successful January 2025, she broke up with him and told him helium had to determination out. He did so, leaving down the location connected the 1200 artifact of Amity Street successful Reading, wherever they had lived with their children and Allende's family.

But helium would return.

In the week aft his departure, Lopez-Ordones reportedly grew jealous, placing a GPS tracker connected his ex-girlfriend's conveyance and arguing with her astir however often helium would get to spot their children. On Jan. 29, 2025, knowing her location, helium followed her to a edifice parking batch wherever helium is said to person seen her with different man.

When she returned location astir 45 minutes later, Lopez-Ordones, again, followed, authorities said. He confronted her, saying, "Who was that guy?" prompting her to archer him to "just stop."

Lopez-Ordones told constabulary helium saw a weapon adjacent him, picked it up, and stabbed Allende "as a joke," not realizing until afterward that helium had stabbed her profoundly successful her chest, per the Reading Eagle. He proceeded to locomotion up the stairs of the location and archer the victim's sister that helium "did thing atrocious and wounded your sister."

The sister went downstairs to find Allende lying successful a excavation of humor connected the room floor, authorities recounted. She called 911, and Allende's begetter and member held the fishy down connected the home's sofa until constabulary arrived.

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Lopez-Ordones has been locked up successful the Berks County Correctional Facility since Jan. 30, 2025. Online tribunal records bash not yet bespeak his plea and sentencing.

An obituary for Allende written successful Spanish remembers her arsenic "a idiosyncratic that made her ain mode successful the world."

"She had a laid-back personality, ever laughing, joking, and not worrying astir the small things," it added. "For Daniela, beingness should beryllium lived with joyousness and humor."