EVERETT — A Monroe woman is facing a stint in prison after pleading guilty to stabbing a man who teased her about having stinky feet.
Dallas Smith, 18, was wearing open-toed shoes Thursday when she acknowledged that a jury likely would find her guilty of second-degree assault with a knife. She pleaded guilty, although she didn’t admit any wrongdoing.
Smith is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 21. She is facing up to nearly two years in prison for the Sept. 7 assault. Smith didn’t have any criminal history before Thursday.
Prosecutors alleged that Smith punctured a 19-year-old man’s lung with a kitchen knife after a friendly challenge took a bad turn.
The stabbing happened when Smith and others were gathered at her ex-boyfriend’s home south of Monroe.
The group was watching movies and drinking. Smith boasted to partygoers that she was deft at back flips.
The victim challenged her to do a flip off the deck, court papers said. Smith took off her shoes and attempted the maneuver. She couldn’t do it. That’s when the man laughed at her and told her that her feet smelled bad, Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Janice Albert wrote in charging papers.
Smith started to playfully wrestle with the man, rubbing her socks in his face. She started hitting him. After several seconds, he pushed her away, Albert wrote.
She grabbed her coat, picked up a steak knife and headed for the door. On the way, Smith walked up to the man and stabbed him in the back, court papers said.
The man and others called 911. He convinced his friends not to remove the knife, which likely saved his life.
A sheriff’s deputy found the man sitting on a porch with the knife sticking out of his back, the blade buried a few inches in. His lung had collapsed from the stabbing.
He spent a few days in the hospital and recovered from the stabbing.
Police arrested Smith at her parents’ home. She denied knowing about any stabbing and declined to speak with investigators.
A witness told police that Smith came to his house that night and told him that she had hurt someone and she was in trouble. She told him someone had taunted her.
Diana Hefley: 425-339-3463; hefley@heraldnet.com.
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