A North Dakota woman is accused of using a hatchet to try and kill her boyfriend while he was sleeping, with a witness saying it sounded like she was "splitting wood" as the girlfriend hacked "through" her lover's skull, according to cops.

Lena Deoliveira, 23, is charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault in Cass County for the Sept. 5 attack on her romantic partner Jonathan Granados, local NBC affiliate KVLY reports. A man who was staying with the couple inside of a detached north Fargo garage, with all three of them being homeless, allegedly told investigators that Granados woke up screaming during the incident.

"[The witness] looked and saw Lena swing down with the hatchet," Deoliveira's charging documents say, according to The Forum of Fargo-Moorehead . "[The witness] could

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