Henderson, Nevada. A woman stabbed her girlfriend, whom she met online, in retaliation for the 2020 death of Qassem Soleimani, an Iranian general killed in a US drone strike, police said.
21-year-old Nick Nikubin was charged with attempted murder, assault with a firearm and burglary, KLAS-TV reports.
Nikubin and the man met on the Internet on a dating site, according to the Henderson police detention protocol. The couple then arranged to meet at the Sunset Station Hotel on March 5, renting a room together.
While in the room, the couple began having sex when Nikubin blindfolded the man, police said. Nikubin then turned off the light, and a few minutes later the man “felt pain in the side of his neck,” according to KLAS.
Nikubin reportedly stabbed the man in the neck “in retaliation against U.S. forces for the assassination of Qassem Soleimani in 2020,” the police report said.
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US forces killed Soleimani, the top general of the Iranian military, in a drone strike in January 2020. Soleimani led the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a terrorist group in charge of the Islamic Republic’s foreign operations.
Revolutionary Guards Senior Commander General Qasem Soleimani meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (not seen) and Revolutionary Guards commanders in Tehran, Iran, September 18, 2016. (Iran’s Supreme Leader’s Office via AP)
After the stabbing, the man pushed Nikubin off himself and ran out of the room to call 911, police said.
Nikubin also ran out of the room, telling a hotel employee that she had just stabbed a man, police said.
In a conversation with the police, Nikubin told the investigator that she “wants revenge.” She said she listened to a song called “The Grave Digger” that “gave her the motivation… to get revenge.”
Nothing is known about the man’s current condition, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal.
According to the newspaper, Nikubin is due to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on March 24. It is not yet clear if she has a lawyer.
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