Posted: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 12:00 am
Gazette-Times
A Corvallis woman was sentenced to three years probation Friday after an incident earlier this year in which police say she told her live-in boyfriend she wanted to kill him and threw a kitchen knife at him.
Evelyn Marie Burman, 18, was sentenced on a felony count of unlawful use of a weapon and two misdemeanor counts of menacing. She was arrested Jan. 3 by the Corvallis Police Department on a felony count of attempted assault and a misdemeanor count of menacing, reckless endangering and criminal mischief just before 1 a.m. at her residence in the 1200 block of Northwest 29th Street.
The charges she was not sentenced on were dropped as part of the diverted sentence, according to Daniel Armstrong with the Benton County District Attorney's Office.
Police say Burman and her 21-year-old boyfriend got into an argument, and Burman told him she was going to kill him several times and threw dishes at him. She then armed herself with a kitchen knife and moved toward him in an attempt to stab him as he tried to get away, police said.
Burman then threw the knife at the man from a short distance and just missed hitting his head. No one was injured during the incident.