A Manassas man survived a brazen but botched attempt by his wife and teenage daughter to have him killed with a baseball bat, police said Friday.
After Luis Blasini, 36, was able to subdue his masked attacker during the May 23 hit, detectives determined Blasini’s wife and daughter hired her 19-year-old boyfriend to kill him, police said Tuesday.
Manassas City Police charged April Blasini, 35, and her 17-year-old daughter Wednesday with conspiracy to commit murder for hire and aggravated malicious wounding, police said. The girl was not identified because she is a minor.
Thomas Bennett, 19, was charged with aggravated malicious wounding for hammering Blasini in the head with a bat, awaiting a June 24 court date.
All three are in custody without bond.
Through his closed front door Friday afternoon, Luis Blasini rejected a request for comment saying, “I’m going through a hard time. Please give me time to breathe.”
Bennett hid in the Blasini family’s back yard about 1 a.m. May 23, while his girlfriend woke her father and asked him to investigate a disturbance outside, police said.
Luis Blasini walked into the fenced-in yard and into the trap, hit from behind as he approached the shed. But Blasini was able to withstand the blows and held the 6-foot-2, 260-pound Bennett at bay until police arrived, according to court reports and neighbors. The beating left Blasini with what Detective D.M. Brazier described in charging documents as “permanent and significant physical impairment.”
“The accused went to the victim’s house with the intent to kill him. He waited outside the victim’s house and made noise to get the victim out. Then, the accused began to hit the victim in the head with a baseball bat,” Brazier wrote.
Neighbors said the family moved into the home on the corner lot a few months ago, and didn’t get to know them well.
Their two younger children received police escorts home from school, to a house where the blinds were shut and newspapers piled up unread in the driveway.
Neighbors said they were shocked by the police accounts.
“This guy thought he had a loving wife, but he didn’t,” said Joshua Nixon, a 19-year-old neighbor. “If you don’t love your husband, ask for a divorce. Don’t try to have him killed.”
