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Burlington Man Pleads Not Guilty To Charge Of Attempted Murder



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SKAGIT, Wash.  (Metro)  -- A plea of not guilty is entered in Skagit County Superior Court by 30-year-old Hector Garcia-Pelayo, who faces a charge of attempted first-degree murder. 

The defendant is accused of slashing the neck of his girlfriend, who was found October 5 crawling out of a wooded area near the Skagit-Whatcom county line. 

Court records say Garcia-Pelayo turned himself in to police and told them he had killed his girlfriend. 
The woman recovered after an emergency blood transfusion.
 
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