MISSOULA – A 22-year-old Havre woman who pleaded guilty to stabbing two men outside a Missoula bar and trying to slash another man who was sitting in a vehicle has been sentenced to 50 years in prison with 30 years suspended.
Lacey Tollefson appeared in District Court on Wednesday on felony charges of attempted homicide, assault with a weapon and attempted assault with a weapon. She will be eligible for parole after serving eight years.
Witnesses told police Tollefson was drunk and belligerent when she stabbed 22-year-old Brian Brennan and 46-year-old Carlos Combs on May 16. Brennan was stabbed in the chest and lost 4 1/2 liters of blood. Combs was hospitalized with a stab wound to the back. Neither men knew Tollefson.
District Judge Ed McLean told Tollefson during Wednesday’s hearing “it is nothing short of a miracle that we are sitting here discussing an attempted homicide and not a deliberate homicide.”