WILSON BORO., Pa. – A man who stabbed his girlfriend to death and attempted to kill his 4-year-old daughter in a Wilson Borough home has been sentenced on Thursday, the Northampton County DA\u2019s Office announced.<\/p>\n
Richard Fantauzzi-Aviles, age 40, was sentenced to the maximum possible sentences for third-degree murder and attempted homicide in the August 29, 2023, stabbing death of Shante Mason and stabbing attack on his 4-year-old daughter in Wilson Borough, according to the Northampton County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
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Shante Mason<\/p>\n
Officials say that Fantauzzi-Aviles was sentenced to the maximum possible sentence of 20 to 40 years in state prison for the killing of Shante Mason. At the same proceeding, Fantauzzi-Aviles was sentenced to an additional maximum possible sentence of 20 to 40 years in state prison for the attempted killing of his 4-year-old daughter, the DA\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n
The sentences will run consecutive such that the total sentence imposed was 40 to 80 years in state prison. Fantauzzi-Aviles waived any right to appeal his conviction or sentence.<\/p>\n
Fantauzzi-Aviles entered pleas of guilty to third-degree murder and attempted homicide in the case on July 2, 2025, according to the press release.<\/p>\n
In entering the plea, Fantauzzi-Aviles admitted that on August 29, 2023, and into the next day of August 30, 2023, in a house in Wilson Borough, he stabbed his girlfriend, Shante Mason, multiple times, causing her death, the DA\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n
Officials say that Fantauzzi-Aviles admitted that he then stabbed his four-year-old daughter multiple times, causing serious bodily injury.<\/p>\n
The case was investigated by the Wilson Borough Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WILSON BORO., Pa. – A man who stabbed his girlfriend to death and attempted to kill his 4-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[443,153,155,154,783,4557,4555,789,4556,795,4554],"class_list":{"0":"post-4933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-attempted-homicide","9":"tag-bethlehem","10":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","11":"tag-bethlehem-news","12":"tag-murder","13":"tag-northampton-county-da","14":"tag-richard-fantauzzi-aviles","15":"tag-sentencing","16":"tag-shante-mason","17":"tag-third-degree-murder","18":"tag-wilson-borough"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}