A Hollywood actor is facing life in prison after being found guilty of stabbing his girlfriend more than 20 times in an attempt to kill her.
Nick Pasqual was found guilty of attempted murder, first-degree residential burglary with person present and injuring a spouse, cohabitant, fiancé, boyfriend, girlfriend or child’s parent, in a California court on Friday.
He stabbed his estranged girlfriend Allie Shehorn repeatedly inside her home in Sunland in May of 2024, leaving her fighting for her life with horrific injuries.
Pasqual attempted to flee to Mexico after his bloodbath attack, but was apprehended on the Fort Hancock International Bridge in tiny Sierra Blanca, Texas, before being extradited back to California.
He now faces the maximum penalty, which is a life sentence in a state prison. He will be sentenced at a later date.
At the time of the attempted murder, Shehorn had already taken out a restraining order on her estranged partner.
She alleged in 2024 that he hit her with a belt on January 29, breaking down several doors in their home on March 6 and raping and choking her on April 14.
After they broke up, Pasqual broke into her home and stabbed her dozens of times.
Nick Pasqual was found guilty of attempted murder in a California court on Friday. He now faces life in jail
Nick Pasqual is seen acting in How I Met Your Mother’s episode named ‘Field Trip’
Allie Shehorn (pictured) was repeatedly stabbed by her boyfriend inside her home in Sunland in May of 2024, leaving her fighting for her life with horrific injuries
The makeup artist was found at the horrific scene by Christine White, her friend who also lived in the same house.
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EXCLUSIVE Actor Nick Pasqual is arrested attempting to flee to Mexico after ‘stabbing makeup artist girlfriend Allie Shehorn 20 times’
A GoFundMe, which was set up to help Shehorn cope with her mounting medical bills at the time, wrote that White ‘acted fast when she found Allie bleeding out’, a move that ‘saved her life.’
White said in 2024: ‘This is not the kind of thing that should happen to anybody. You don’t think this is ever going to happen to you.
‘I found her and I had to go into the bedroom where it happened,’ she said. ‘That wasn’t a pretty sight.’
In tearful testimony during the trial, Shehorn said: ‘I locked the door and he just started punching holes in that door and broke that open, and I just ran into the bathroom because I thought there’s another lock on that door.’
Speaking to the Daily Mail in 2024, Shehorn revealed that she almost died from the stab wounds inflicted on her and said that Pasqual ‘can’t get away with it’.
‘I just hope that there’s justice served,’ she said.
‘People should know that this shouldn’t happen and he can’t get away with it.’
The talented special effects make-up artist spent more than a week in hospital following the attack and still bears the marks, including vivid scarring to her throat.
The estranged couple are pictured together
She spent over a week in the hospital where she almost died from the stab wounds inflicted on her
Pasqual is seen here on a red carpet in 2009
At the time, one of her hands was still in a cast and she said she didn’t know whether it will recover enough for her to be able to return to work.
‘That’s the goal,’ she told Daily Mail. ‘I still don’t have feeling back in my hands and partial vision loss that I can’t get back.
Shehorn has worked as a makeup artist on films like Mean Girls and Rebel Moon.
Pasqual appeared on How I Met Your Mother, Archive 81, and was the producer on the comedy series National Day Riff.
The actor has previous convictions, including a July 2013 DUI and another the following February.
