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Nick Pasqual arrested for attempted murder after attack on Allie Shehorn

Content warning: This story contains rape and violence.

There is an update in Allie Shehorn‘s brutal attack.

Actor Nick Pasqual— the makeup artist’s estranged boyfriend — was charged with attempted murder, first-degree residential burglary in the presence of a person and battery on a spouse, domestic partner, fiancé, boyfriend, girlfriend or parent of a child, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney. George Gascon announced on May 29th.

If convicted, Pasqual could face the maximum sentence of life in a state prison, the press release said.

Although Shehorn is not identified as Pasqual’s victim in the press release, the statement says that at 4:30 a.m. on May 23 – the same day as Shehorn’s attack, her friends told KTLA – Pasqual broke into an estranged friend’s Los Angeles home, where he stabbed her multiple times.

Pasqual allegedly fled the scene and was arrested at a border checkpoint in Texas between the U.S. and Mexico, the press release said. The statement said he will be extradited to Los Angeles County.