Overview
- Pasqual, 36, was handed a 32‑year‑to‑life term by a Los Angeles judge on Tuesday after a jury last month found him guilty of attempted murder, forcible rape, first‑degree burglary and multiple counts of injuring a partner.
- Prosecutors say Pasqual broke into Allie Shehorn’s Sunland home on May 23, 2024, stabbed her more than 20 times and fled the state while Shehorn underwent emergency surgery and days in intensive care.
- Shehorn had filed a restraining order days before the attack and testified at trial with visible scars, delivering a victim impact statement describing lying on the floor 'in a pool of my own blood.'
- Pasqual was stopped at a U.S.‑Mexico border checkpoint in Sierra Blanca, Texas, after the attack and returned to Los Angeles; his representatives say he plans to appeal and Shehorn has filed a separate civil lawsuit.
- Los Angeles prosecutors framed the sentence as accountability for domestic violence and the case is likely to sharpen scrutiny of how restraining orders are served and how survivors access protection.