{"id":352640,"date":"2026-09-21T18:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/352640\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T18:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:04:12","slug":"brooklyn-woman-claims-she-stabbed-boyfriend-to-death-because-hed-beaten-her-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/352640\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn woman claims she stabbed boyfriend to death because he&#8217;d beaten her for years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Brooklyn woman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/09\/20\/woman-jennifer-ayala-arrested-manslaughter-stabbing-man-pedersin-pelissier-domestic-clash-in-her-brooklyn-apartment\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">accused of killing<\/a> her boyfriend to death during a clash inside her apartment told cops she stabbed him because he had been beating her for three years and nobody would help her, law enforcement sources said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Ayala, 36, is accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/09\/19\/man-found-dead-multiple-stab-wounds-flatbush-apartment\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stabbing Pedersin Pelissier<\/a>, also 36, twice in the chest inside her home on Linden Blvd. near New York Ave. in Flatbush about 6:50 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Pelissier was the aggressor in seven past domestic violence incidents that cops responded to, law enforcement sources. It wasn\u2019t immediately clear if he had been arrested for any of those incidents.<\/p>\n<p>But after Ayala was taken into custody for stabbing Pelissier, she told cops she\u2019d had enough, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo then I said \u2018F\u2014 it. The police won\u2019t help me, nobody will help me, I\u2019m going to f\u2014ing kill you,&#8217;\u201d Ayala explained, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p>After the killing, she told police she grabbed a knife to \u201cpoke\u201d him because he wouldn\u2019t stop hitting her, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Ayala was arraigned late Sunday in Brooklyn Criminal Court on manslaughter and weapon possession charges.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Pedersin Pelissier\" width=\"3000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/0920bkstab1.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9232258\" \/><\/p>\n<p>GoFundMe<\/p>\n<p>Pedersin Pelissier, 36. (GoFundMe)<\/p>\n<p>A judge ordered her held on $50,000 bond.\u00a0Her lawyer, Anthony Zucco of the Legal Aid Society, declined comment Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Pelissier lived in Fort Greene, according to cops.<\/p>\n<p>He had two ongoing criminal cases in Brooklyn at the time he was killed. He had been arrested July 4 for allegedly assaulting someone that day over 65. He was facing a slew of charges including assault and harassment in that case. And on Dec. 16 he was arrested for using a gun to rob someone a week earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors described Ayala and Pelissier\u2019s relationship as \u201ctoxic\u201d Sunday, and said they would often hear Pelissier urging Ayala to \u201ccalm down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey both had issues. That\u2019s what it was,\u201d said one neighbor on her floor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. \u201cI said, last week, the last time he was kicking the doors in, she was probably going to kill him or he\u2019d kill her.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brooklyn woman accused of killing her boyfriend to death during a clash inside her apartment told cops&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-352640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}