TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Authorities say a Tulsa woman reached into the casket of her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend at a funeral home and slashed the dead woman's face.
Shaynna Sims, 26, was arrested after the alleged incident last week on a preliminary complaint of illegally dissecting a human body, which is a misdemeanor.
She had not been formally charged as of Monday, and online jail records show she remained in jail Monday and has an initial court hearing scheduled for this Thursday. Police declined to provide the name of the deceased and said they didn't know the name of Sims' boyfriend.
Sgt. Shane Tuell, a police spokesman, said investigators don't know what led Sims to slash the body of her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend. He said he didn't know Sims' boyfriend's name and he declined to give the dead woman's name.
"I was hoping by now this young lady would have talked and given her motivation behind why she did what she did, but apparently she's keeping that to herself," Tuell said.
Witnesses told officers that they saw Sims reach into the casket. The dead woman's face was cut from her hairline to the tip of her nose, her makeup was smeared and her hair was on the floor, police said.
Wilson said staff there called police after they were alerted to the vandalism by a visitor.
Officers arrested Sims later Thursday at the dead woman's apartment, and that she had on her a folding knife with the dead woman's hair attached to it.