A senior official at the Los Angeles Fire Department made ‘homicidal and suicidal’ threats, strangled and chased her girlfriend with a carving knife, court documents claimed.
LAFD assistant chief Kristina ‘Kady’ Kepner then wrote a suicide note after cutting herself according to a 2021 domestic violence restraining order filed by the ex in a Los Angeles court.
During an argument at their home, the LAFD official allegedly ‘lunged’ at her ex and began strangling her, while saying that she was going to “f***ing kill” her, the November 17, 2021, court filing said.
A judge dismissed both claims in February 2022, and LAFD says it investigated and cleared Kepner, who is currently in charge of the department’s Emergency Operations Center.
But the violence allegations have now resurfaced amid criticism of LA City’s top brass over this month’s wildfires that wiped whole neighborhoods off the map.
The ex claimed that Kepner put her in a headlock, knocked her to the floor and forcibly kissed her, and that later that day she allegedly started waving a ‘large butcher knife’ around, ‘holding it up to her [own] neck and chest threatening to stab herself in the heart or neck’ – then wrote a suicide note.
The alleged threats and attempted strangling were caught on video, the court documents claimed, and included screenshots from the alleged footage.
Kepner told DailyMail.com her ex had ‘orchestrated a campaign to attempt to ruin my career’ with ‘bogus’ claims.
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