NJ Teacher Accused of Murder

(Irvington, New Jersey) A 31-year-old audio/video production teacher at Irvington High School, Sharonda Wilson, was arrested yesterday for allegedly plunging a kitchen knife into the heart of her live-in boyfriend, Erik Stubblefield, 38.

Wilson faces murder and weapons charges.

“She said he was upset with her,” after he confronted her with his suspicions that she was cheating on him, said Irvington police Lt. Tracy Bowers.

Although Wilson told Stubblefield that his suspicions were baseless, “the confrontation got physical and her charged her,” Bowers said Wilson told investigators. “She then used a knife to defend herself.”

Police, responding to a 911 call from Wilson at 2:23 p.m. Thursday, found Stubblefield in the Headley Terrace apartment he had shared with Wilson for about a year, prosecutor’s office spokeswoman Katherine Carter said.

Medical personnel tried to revive him, but Stubblefield was pronounced dead at the scene just before 3 p.m.

Wilson was booked into custody at the Essex County Correctional Facility with bail set at $250,000.