Police: Woman stabbed husband to death in Brownsville
Posted: Updated:Police say a man was stabbed to death by his wife in what police are calling a domestic incident.
Officials say 29-year-old Rochele Watson-Stanley is in police custody.
She was arrested overnight and charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon.
Police say she stabbed her 51-year-old husband in their Brownsville apartment Friday night.
He later died.
No word yet on a possible motive.
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