Title translation: “A mental case mestizo who had no business waltzing around our country in the first place murdered his white girlfriend after she finally wised up and dumped him.”
WORCESTER, Mass. — According to court documents, the Derry man accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death on Wednesday had fled to Canada and later to Mexico after assaulting the same woman in April.
Carlos Ascencio, 28, was sent to Bridgewater (Mass.) State Hospital to undergo a 20-day mental health evaluation following his arraignment in Central District Court in Worcester on Friday. He is facing charges including murder, after authorities said he stabbed 31-year-old Amanda Dabrowski to death on Wednesday night.
Not-guilty pleas were entered on his behalf.
Court documents confirmed Dabrowski succumbed to her injuries at the UMass Memorial Medical Center after being stabbed multiple times at O’Connor’s Restaurant & Bar on West Boylston Street in Worcester.
She was stabbed “15 to 20 times,” court documents said.
When a good Samaritan, Allan Corson Jr., lunged to help, he too got stabbed, in the thigh, but the injuries were not life-threatening, officials said.
Dabrowski said that on April 21 a man she believed was Ascencio wore a mask when he broke into her home and used a stun gun on her several times.
She then stabbed Ascencio with a vape pen, grabbed a bottle of alcohol and broke it over his head, court documents said.
The fight between the pair continued until he fled the home through a window, according to the court documents.
Police said they later determined Ascencio left the country, first taking his father’s car and driving it to Stanstead, Quebec, in Canada and then taking a flight to Cancun, Mexico.
Authorities said in court Friday they had not been aware that Ascencio was back in the country until the stabbing on Wednesday.
The couple had been dating for three months when she broke up with him, according to court documents.
“The victim advised that Carlos did not take the break-up well and that he had accused her of being a prostitute,” said a police affidavit.
Ascencio had previously lived in Nashua.
At the request of Ascencio’s lawyer, a court clinician examined him.
Forensic psychologist Dr. Stephanie Hansen told the court Ascencio had auditory hallucinations over the past two years, as well as an increase in anger and explosive violent episodes over the past several months.
“Based upon the limited but available information, the defendant does report a long history of depression that has generally remained untreated for the past several years and has resulted in at least one suicide attempt back in 2008,” she testified.
The Boston Herald contributed to this report.