To detectives, Patricia Ann Cave described a tumultuous relationship with her boyfriend. The pair fought frequently, she said, and he had been arrested for assaulting her. When yet another disagreement turned physical on June 2, Cave picked up the phone to call 911, but her boyfriend slapped the phone out of her hand. Shortly after, Cave’s boyfriend, Lamont Warren, was dead.
“That bitch stabbed me… call 911,” Warren pleaded with a neighbor before he walked out of the apartment building and collapsed.
That’s according to charging documents citing a video interview Cave recorded for MPD homicide detectives after Warren died.
Cave, 49, is being held on a second-degree murder charge pending a preliminary hearing July 12.
According to charging documents, Cave and Warren, 36, had been in a romantic relationship since October 2010. Court records support Cave’s assertion that the relationship was rife with arguments, though: in April Warren pleaded guilty to a domestic violence charge of simple assault. He was sentenced to 120 days incarceration, one year of probation and ordered to stay away from Cave.
According to charging documents, Cave initially wouldn’t let Warren in when he knocked on her apartment door the night he was killed. But she said she changed her mind, let him in, and the pair “had some drinks.”
Later, when Warren said he was tired, Cave said she told him to lie down in the bedroom. When she later followed him to bed she saw him sprawled across the bed, which irritated her, she said. She jockeyed for a position in the bed and asked him to move. The two fought and their verbal altercation escalated to a physical one. When Warren grabbed her around the neck, she grabbed a knife that was near the bed, Cave said, motioning stabbing movements to detectives.
