Morgan Taylor Lund stabbed her ex-boyfriend in his sleep, authorities said. (Mugshot: Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office)
A Wisconsin woman was sentenced on Friday to seven years and six months in prison for stabbing her ex-boyfriend 19 times in his sleep. The defendant, Morgan Taylor Lund, 22, must also serve five years of extended supervision for the aggravated battery charge. After that, she must serve an additional five years of probation for second-degree recklessly endangering safety.
She pleaded no contest to the two charges back in August.
According to authorities in Winnebago County, she took a pair of scissors and plunged it 19 times into her ex-boyfriend as he slept.
The victim, who survived the incident, demanded the truth from Lund.
“What the f— is wrong with you?” he told her, according to documents. “Why in my sleep, bro?”
“I thought I saw something,” Lund allegedly said.
“No!” the man said.
A responding officer walked in on a bloody scene.
“When Officer Bennett reached the top of the stairs he saw a younger blonde female who appeared to be wearing only an oversized blue UCLA sweatshirt and had the appearance of blood coating both of her legs, her feet, both forearms, and the back and front of her hands,” documents stated. “She was leaning over the back of a black sectional couch in a living room, applying pressure to a shirtless male’s upper chest or right shoulder area.”
The relationship had been contentious. The ex-boyfriend alleged that Lund physically abused him, striking him on several occasions. They had a child and lived together, but they argued daily and it got to the point that when they did argue, he shut it down because he no longer wanted anything to do with her. They ended the relationship one-to-two months before the stabbing.
Nonetheless, the man said he did not know why Lund stabbed him, “especially in front of his daughter.” Nothing happened between them the previous night. Lund threatened him in the past, though to his knowledge, she never threatened to kill him, he said in documents.
Lund, who initially pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, claimed to be seeing some sort of “figure” for up to a year.
“She stated that for roughly six months to a year she had been seeing a ‘figure’ that was dark in color and clearly not a person,” court documents stated. “This morning she said that she remembers waking up at approximately 6:30 AM with the baby in the room. Because she was having trouble sleeping, she took the baby out to a large playpen in the living room where V1 was laying on the couch. She returned to bed to fall back asleep.”
Lund said she did not remember waking up a second time that morning.
“She had a muddled memory of something that might have been a dream, or her imagination, but she thought V1 was yelling at their daughter,” the documents stated. “She remembers then being in the living room area and seeing this dark, scary figure on top of V1, attacking him. She went over to the couch area and picked up a pair of scissors laying there and began ‘trying to kill’ the dark ominous figure attacking V1. It was not until V1 was screaming at her and fighting back that she realized the figure was not there and she was, in fact, injuring V1. She says that as soon as she realized what was happening she put down the scissors and tried to render first aid to V1.”
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