'40-Year-Old Virgin' actor: I stabbed girlfriend 20 times by mistake

[mike r]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/09/10/actor.stabbing.trial/

'40-Year-Old Virgin' actor: I stabbed girlfriend by mistake
By Dahvi Shira, PEOPLE.com

(PEOPLE.com) -- The "40-Year-Old Virgin" actor Shelley Malil testified Thursday he stabbed his girlfriend 20 times when he wrongly thought that she was somebody else going after him in the dark.

"I'm sorry," Malil, 45, said in a Vista, California, courtroom. "I had no idea. I saw the pictures (of her wounds) for the first time, I was stunned. When I look at those pictures, I still can't believe the knife I was holding was responsible for all those injuries."

Taking the stand in his own defense, the actor insisted he never intended to kill or hurt Kendra Beebe, 38, at her San Diego County house one night in August 2008. But then "chaos" broke out, some of which he says he still can't remember clearly.

Malil, who played one of Steve Carell's electronics store coworkers in the movie, pleaded not guilty to charges of premeditated attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and residential burglary. He could get 21 years to life in prison if convicted...

[Cassandra]

1. The knife was responsible?????

Way to pass the buck, there.

[Ken Burch]

2. OK...I can buy it that the FIRST stab wound might be a mistake...

...but all TWENTY of them?...

:eyes:

[tammywammy]

3. What a strange story. n/t

[bettyellen]

4. what bullshit

[SheilaT]

5. Something important must be missing from

this story. For instance, was a toxicology report done on him?

As Ken Burch said, the first stab wound anyone can understand, but twenty?

[TorchTheWitch]

6. That many would be a rage killing

indicating he knew who he was stabbing.

[Warpy]

8. No shit, I'm sure a tox screen would turn up all kinds of stuff

Nobody accidentally stabs someone else 20 times.

I don't know who this clown thinks he's fooling.

[rocktivity]

7. Malil says he felt threatened because he thought Maldonado was about to come after him.

TRANSLATION: "Malil felt outraged and attacked Beebee because he thought she shouldn't be sipping wine with anyone but him."

:eyes:
rocktivity

[Recovered Repug]

14. Felt threatened by Maldonado and stabs Beebee.

Seems reasonable to me.

[Statistical]

9. "I still can't believe the knife I was holding was responsible for all those injuries."

Hey dipshit the KNIFE isn't responsible YOU are responsible.

I say lock him up until he understands that concept.

[Jamastiene]

10. Knives don't just jump up and stab people on their own.

This guy needs a reality check.

[rocktivity]

11. Here's a story from about two weeks ago

...Authorities contend that Malil took a knife from his Sherman Oaks apartment then traveled to Beebe's home.

Malil is said to have surprised Beebe on her back patio on an otherwise quiet Sunday evening, walking up calmly and stabbing her as she sat drinking wine with a friend. The friend has said he wrested the knife away and ran for help.

But, prosecutor Keith Watanabe said, Malil grabbed another knife and continued the attack...(which) ended when Beebe's neighbor...heard her screams and intervened...

After an argument the day before the attack, Watanabe alleged, Malil e-mailed photos of himself having sex with Beebe to her employees...Beebe suffered at least 23 stab wounds, including some so deep that her lung collapsed...
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/sdcounty/article_43c369f7-3a94-53ce-9a35-2f46ffec176c.html">(link)

Sad, but infinitely more logical.

:eyes:
rocktivity

[mike r]

13. Thanks for the background

Pretty damming information.

[blondeatlast]

12. "...chaos broke out..." among 2 or 3 (see rocktivity's post) people? REALLY?

I'm finding that so very hard to believe.

[marmar]

15. Reminds me of that line from "Chicago"......

"He ran into my knife.....He ran into my knife 10 times."