More than 15 years after a fatal Christmas week stabbing amid domestic abuse claims, a Massachusetts woman has been granted parole.

Kimberly Savini was convicted of murder in the second degree for the death of Arnaldo Amado after a 2008 stabbing. She was sentenced in 2011 to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

On Dec. 27, 2008, Amado, 42, came home drunk and the couple got into a shoving match over Amado’s drinking, according to a police report obtained by the Boston Herald . Savini, 33, repeatedly told her boyfriend to leave. But he didn’t.

Instead, the police report states she said he came at her and she grabbed a kitchen knife from the stove and plunged it into his chest near his heart. She then called 911 and washed the blood off the knife in the kitchen sink.

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