TORRINGTON – Adam Palomo will stand trial before a jury in Eighth Judicial District Court to face a felony charge of aggravated assault.
The trial is scheduled for June 24 at 9 a.m., and is expected to last two days. If Palomo is found guilty, he faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Amy Palomo, Adam Palomo’s sister, is also facing an aggravated battery charge and will stand trial June 4.
The Palomos were arrested after allegedly attacking a pair of victims with throwing knives in a Main Street parking lot.
When officers arrived at the scene, the affidavit of probable cause said, they found two victims with knife wounds.
“(One victim) had lacerations to her right leg and upper left arm,” the affidavit said. “(The victim) advised that she had been stabbed by Amy Palomo.”
The victim told officers she knew Palomo, and the male victim had a relationship with a relative of Palomo’s in the past, the affidavit said.
“We were told by several witnesses (the male victim) was stabbed by Amy’s brother, whose name they did not know…. (the male victim) was stabbed in the abdomen, just below the sternum,” the affidavit said.
In the affidavit, the female victim told law enforcement officers Amy had attacked her with two knives in her hands. The affidavit states that in the alley, Goshen County Sheriff’s Deputy Herbert Irons “located a black nylon sheath with a throwing knife in it laying on the ground in the alley, along with a hair tie with some black or brown hair in it laying about two feet away. The sheath had a slot for two more knives in it, which were missing.”
After the victims were transported to the hospital, Loveland told police “she did not know why Amy had attacked her. Amy had told Loveland, ‘I knew I’d find you someday,” the affidavit said.
The affidavit said the male victim “stated that he attempted to intervene between Loveland and Amy Palomo and while doing so he was stabbed by the male that was with Amy… Gutierrez said at first he thought he had just got punched in the stomach and then realized he had been stabbed and observed that the male had a knife in one hand and a beer bottle in the other.”
Later that morning, Scottsbluff, Neb., police located Amy Palomo’s car outside her last known address. The affidavit states there was a knife in the backseat, and Amy Palomo and Adam Palomo were arrested.
Amy and Adam are currently being held at the Goshen County Detention Center. In both cases, bond was set at $10,000.
