Man faces deportation after prank on girlfriend backfires

LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY — A Kentucky man may have succeeded in pranking his girlfriend, but he's likely to be deported because of it.

His girlfriend of three years returned home from work to find the door to her apartment kicked in.

She describes finding the apartment in disarray, "I came through-- he had tables flipped over, my chair flipped over. There was blood on the walls."

Finally she found her boyfriend face down on their bed, covered in what she thought was blood, an 8-inch knife stuck in his neck.  "I screamed and took off running and went across the street and called the police that my boyfriend was murdered."

She says, "the only time he was hollering it was a joke was when the police came through the door and he had the knife in his hand, he dropped the knife and said it was a prank for my girlfriend because she was a few minutes late from work."

Police weren't laughing and soon discovered the prankster, David Herrera-Giminez had an active warrant for a failure to appear.

Now he sits in jail, facing deportation to Mexico.

WPXI