Prosecutors say a man held his girlfriend against her will in his St. Paul apartment, where he shaved her head and poured boiling water on her. Jabari Quentin Junior, 22, was charged Friday with first-degree assault and kidnapping. She had severe, oozing burns to her face, arms and torso. She had a stab wound to her leg.
She planned on staying the night, but they argued because she was talking to other men. Junior grabbed a hair clipper, held his girlfriend against the bed and shaved her head. After he poured boiling water from a pot onto her, she tried to leave, but he pinned her to the bed. He had a butcher knife in one hand and choked her with the other.
She fought back as she felt she was going to lose consciousness. Junior stabbed her leg, the woman said.
She said she tried to leave again and he threw another pot of boiling water on her. The woman woke Wednesday to Junior again pouring boing water on her.
Junior walked her to a nearby bus stop, called and handed her the phone. She said he told her to lie about her injuries and threatened to hurt her worse if she told the truth. He ran back to his apartment. Junior said the woman tried to blame him for her injuries when she came over. He said she let him use her phone, then he discovered she was texting other guys and they argued while he was cooking. The woman held something behind her back, which Junior thought was a knife or fork, and he threw a pot of water into the air.
