Wedding stabber gets 17 years in boyfriend’s murder

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A District woman was sentenced to 17 years in prison for fatally stabbing her boyfriend after accusing him of not paying enough attention to her at a wedding reception.

Dominique Bassil, 26, was found guilty by a D.C. jury of second-degree murder while armed in November in the stabbing death of her boyfriend, Vance Harris II.

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