‘Amazing soul’: Friends mourn nurse and mother stabbed at Fort Worth home
A woman who was killed at her Fort Worth home over the weekend is being remembered as an “amazing soul,” a dedicated nurse and a wonderful mother.
Mirlande Ciprien, 51, worked as a NICU nurse manager at Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in Irving, a friend wrote in a GoFundMe post organized to raise money for her family and funeral expenses.
Ciprien, whose friends called her Mindy, “was well-accomplished, passionate, driven, and had recently earned her PhD in nursing,” according to the GoFundMe. “She was someone who devoted her time to not only her family and friends, but to helping and caring for others and her community.”
“Words cannot describe the heartbreak the family is going through right now nor the pain of her absence that will be felt throughout our community. Mindy was a wonderful friend, someone who brightened so many lives,” the post read.
Victim’s son accused of stabbing her
Police officers were called just before 9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13, to the family’s home in the 4800 block of Cargill Circle, in far north Fort Worth. Mirlande Ciprien was pronounced dead on the scene from a stab wound to the neck, police said.
Homicide investigators determined that a domestic altercation between the mother and her 21-year-old son Malachyah Ciprien occurred at the house, police said.
Malachyah Ciprien was found nearby and arrested that night. He was taken to a hospital to be treated for a possibly self-inflicted wound, police said.
He was booked in the Tarrant County Jail on Saturday, Feb. 14, and faces a murder charge. His bond has been set at $499,997, according to jail records.