PALATKA, Fla. — A 23-year-old Palatka woman was sentenced to 50 years in prison Thursday after pleading no contest in September to stabbing her boyfriend to death in May 2022, according to a news release from the Seventh Judicial Circuit of Florida.

On Sept. 22, court records show Tykidra Leonard entered a no contest plea to second-degree murder with a weapon.

According to prosecutors, in the early morning hours of May 20, 2022, the Palatka Police Department responded to the stabbing at a home on South 14th Street in Palatka.

Prosecutors say officers found Leonard kneeling over her boyfriend in a front room of the home.

According to the release, Leonard died from his injuries at a local hospital.

The release states that Leonard told detectives in an interview that she thought her boyf

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