City police officers testified Monday during a preliminary hearing about the chilling scene of a stabbing in February at a Butler home.

“The victim was in a pool of blood,” said Sgt. Cheryl Litz during testimony Monday. “Every time he would breath, you could hear him moaning.”

The charges against Dhana LeFevre, 52, of Butler, who police said allegedly stabbed her husband, Phillip LeFevre, 55, have moved forward to the Butler County Court of Common Pleas per a ruling from District Judge William Fullerton.Dhana LeFevre has been charged with attempted homicide and felony aggravated assault.LeFevre, who has been free after posting $25,000 bail, appeared in court alongside her attorney, Armand Cingolani III.“This is a long process,” Cingolani said after the ruling. “There's more to this story than meets the eye.”Leading up to the ruling, the victim, Phillip LeFevre, 55, sat in the back of the courtroom, listening to the officers' accounts of the night his wife allegedly stabbed him in the chest.Assistant District Attorney Robert M. Zanella Jr. led the prosecution's questioning of the officers.Litz said she was the first to arrive at the scene. Litz said she has also served as a paramedic for more than 40 years in addition to her many years of police service.The couple's son met her at the door and told her the two were upstairs, Litz testified. She said when she reached the second floor, she found Phillip LeFevre bleeding and unresponsive.The officer said she moved into the bedroom, where she found Dhana LeFevre sitting in a chair.“Calm. Cool. She wanted to continue drinking her wine and smoke a cigarette,” Litz said.According to her testimony, Litz secured the wife, and she moved onto treating the husband until paramedics arrived. During this time, Dhana LeFevre made comments admitting to stabbing her husband, Litz said.Those statements sounded similar to those Detective Chad Rensel relayed from his interview with Dhana LeFevre a few hours after her the stabbing.“She said, 'I'm not trying to hide anything, I stabbed my husband,'” Rensel said.Rensel said he had been at the crime scene, where multiple investigators also noticed part of the bedroom's door frame had been pried off. Dhana LeFevre told him her husband had come home drunk, and he had done that to the door frame while trying to break into the room.“She described that her husband was abusive and was abusive that night,” Rensel said. “She told me she wasn't going to take it anymore.”The detective said he also interviewed Phillip LeFevre, who told him he had been drinking, went home and was stabbed by his wife.Rensel read a list of Phillip LeFevre's injuries aloud, which included the stab wound to the upper left chest that collapsed the lung. The husband also suffered from a broken nose and a skull fracture.Phillip LeFevre declined to comment on the case after the hearing.Despite the testimony, Cingolani later argued against the case moving forward.“My objection is that all of these people who were here testifying were there after the fact,” Cingolani said to Fullerton.Fullerton pointed out that the officers observed the direct results of the incident, seeing the bloody wounds, and received admissions from the wife herself.“For today's purposes, we're not dealing with could or credibility,” Fullerton said.Dhana LeFevre is scheduled to appear June 15 for a formal arraignment in county court.

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