Man sentenced to 30 years in prison for stabbing ex-wife and her daughter

ROCHESTER, NY – A man was sentenced to 30 years behind bars after pleading guilty to stabbing his ex-wife and her 14-year-old daughter.

Doyle Rucker, 35, was sentenced Monday. Shaughnessy Denson spoke to News10NBC about surviving the domestic violence attack, saying she was stabbed more than 50 times by her ex-husband on the city’s Mitchell Street on February 3. Denson said her daughter was stabbed six times.

Denson was in a medically induced coma in the hospital for weeks after the attack. She lost half of a lung and her spleen and underwent several operations.

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