Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that a jury has found 25-year-old Taylor Partlow of Buffalo guilty of one count of Manslaughter in the First Degree following a 4 day trial.

On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at approximately 5:20 a.m., the defendant stabbed her boyfriend, 20-year-old Miguel Wyatt, in the chest during an argument at a home on Block Street in the City of Buffalo. The victim later died at ECMC.

Partlow faces a maximum of 25 years in state prison when she is sentenced by State Supreme Court Justice Russell P. Buscaglia on July 8 at 11:00 a.m. The defendant remains remanded without bail.

DA Flynn commends the investigative work of Det. Adam Stephany, Det. James Kaska, and Capt. Jason Whiteknight of the Buffalo Police Department.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Patrick B. Shanahan of the DA’s Tactical Prosecution Bureau and Assistant District Attorney Gina M. Gramaglia of the DA’s Domestic Violence Bureau.