STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.-- A Tompkinsville man allegedly stabbed his wife in the neck, face and body numerous times Tuesday afternoon, according to an NYPD spokesman.
Upali Pelige, of Bay Street, brutally attacked his wife inside her Brooklyn apartment on Wortman Avenue at approximately 4:30 p.m., police said.
She was then rushed to Brookdale University Hospital.
Sources told the Daily News Pelige, 40, and his wife were living apart and he stabbed her after she refused to have sex with him.
Pelige was arrested Tuesday night in Brooklyn and is charged with attempted murder and assault, the spokesman said.