Man Convicted in Wife’s Stabbing
A Fountain Valley man who claimed his wife stabbed herself in the stomach before he went temporarily crazy and stabbed her 25 times in the back was convicted of first-degree murder Wednesday.
Thomas Storey, a former U.S. Navy petty officer who served on a peacekeeping mission to Somalia with a Marine detachment in 1993, faces a sentence of up to 26 years to life in prison when he returns to court Dec. 17.
Deputy Dist. Atty. Chris Kralick argued that Storey forced 22-year-old Gechee “Ginny” Chang Storey to write a page-and-a-half “suicide” note, then stabbed her in the stomach with a kitchen knife.
The Feb. 10, 1998, attack was in the Fountain Valley home the couple shared with her parents. The attack was interrupted when the victim’s mother entered the room, Kralick said.
Deputy Public Defender Phil Zalewski argued that Ginny Storey was depressed after filing for a divorce and fatally wounded herself, touching off her husband’s psychotic state and the additional stabbing.
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