‘She got in my way’: Man smashed beer bottle over 8-year-old’s head then ‘sliced her neck’ inside restaurant, authorities say

A 24-year-old antheral successful New Mexico is accused of intentionally breaking a solid brew vessel implicit an 8-year-old girl’s caput and slicing her cervix astatine a edifice for being “in his way,” leaving the unfortunate hospitalized and requiring much than a twelve stitches.

Nichalas San Souci was indicted by a expansive assemblage successful Bernalillo County past week connected charges of maltreatment of a kid resulting successful large bodily harm, aggravated artillery with a deadly weapon, and aggravated battle with a deadly weapon, authorities announced.

According to a news release from the Bernalillo County District Attorney’s Office, the incidental took spot connected April 25, 2025, astatine Saggios, a edifice successful the 100 artifact of Cornell Drive.

The unfortunate was “looking astatine a waterfall” wrong the edifice erstwhile “San Souci deed the kid implicit the caput with a brew vessel past sliced her cervix with the breached bottle,” prosecutors said. The kid was “seriously injured” and authorities said she needed to get 19 stitches.

The unfortunate and San Souci did not cognize each different anterior to the incident, constabulary said.

The victim’s father, Britton Rose, provided further details astir what took spot successful an interview with Albuquerque ABC affiliate KOAT.

Rose said that erstwhile helium recovered his girl successful the restaurant, she was “soaking wet.” She past explained that idiosyncratic had “come up from down and broke a brew vessel implicit her head.”

According to Rose, the fashionable edifice was crowded and determination was a agelong enactment erstwhile helium and his household arrived, truthful they knew it “was going to beryllium a while” earlier they were seated astatine a table. As they waited, helium said his woman and girl went to locomotion astir and look astatine the murals and different decorations wrong the establishment.

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“That’s erstwhile I heard my woman from crossed the edifice yelling, ‘No, no, stop,’” Rose told the station. “And past I knew thing was going connected with my family.”

According to tribunal documents obtained by the station, aft breaking the vessel connected the child’s head, San Souci past “stabbed” and “sliced” the unfortunate with what remained of the bottle. He allegedly told authorities that helium attacked the 8-year-old “because she got successful my way.”

After allegedly attacking his daughter, Rose told the presumption that San Souci pulled retired a weapon.

“Later, aft our archetypal altercation, helium did basal backmost up, and helium pulled retired a knife. Which astatine archetypal I possibly thought helium was going to usage against me, but rapidly I could archer that his volition diverted, and helium was looking backmost implicit towards my daughter. So I wanted to marque definite that I could get successful betwixt him and her.”

District Attorney Sam Bregman called the incidental “so, truthful disturbing,” adding that San Souci could look decades successful situation for his alleged crimes.

“The idiosyncratic was indicted for first-degree kid abuse, aggravated artillery with a deadly weapon, aggravated battle with a deadly weapon,” helium told KOAT. “He’s facing 22 and a fractional years. If he’s convicted of that kid abuse, that is mandatory 18 years.”

San Souci is presently being held successful Bernalillo County Jail without bond, records show.