GENEVA COUNTY, AL – An Alabama woman implicated in a vicious attack where a man was stabbed 19 times after being lured into a fake date has admitted to her role in the attempted murder. The narrative took a conclusive turn as she entered a guilty plea on the eve of her trial.

On a Monday at a Geneva County courtroom, Shalyn Diaz was sentenced to a decade behind bars for a premeditated assault launched in January. Her guilty admission forestalled what was poised to be a contentious legal battle.

The plot, hatched by Diaz, began innocuously when she reached out to the victim on Facebook Messenger on January 6, inviting him on a leisurely car ride for the following day, according to law enforcement officials. Diaz picked up the man from his residence in Dothan around evening, with an unsuspecting accomplice, Robert Hall, stowed away in the vehicle’s trunk.

Once the evening arrived, Diaz instructed the victim to position himself in the back seat, blindfolded and restrained by handcuffs. It was at this moment Hall emerged from his hiding place, proceeding to strangle and stab the blindfolded victim with a cord. After pulling the victim out of the car, deputies recount, Hall continued his onslaught, puncturing the man with his weapon multiple additional times.

Abandoning the victim, presumed dead, on a roadside, Diaz and Hall fled the scene. Fatefully, another motorist noticed the handcuffed, critically injured man and summoned emergency responders, leading to his urgent transport to the hospital, where he eventually recovered from his life-threatening injuries.

Following a speedy apprehension, both assailants were charged, with a grand jury indicting them on kidnapping and attempted murder in April. Hall had previously accepted his part in the scheme, pleading guilty on June 12, which resulted in a life sentence. The resolution in Diaz’s case now closes a chilling chapter of premeditated violence that shook the Geneva County community.