Montco woman sentenced in knife attack outside Lyft ride

A Willow Grove woman charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly stabbing a man with a kitchen knife in the leg outside a ride-share vehicle avoided prosecution on the felony and instead pleaded guilty to four misdemeanors, including assault.

Minerva Perez-Ramos, 34, of the 60^th block of North York Road, was sentenced to five to 23 months in Bucks County jail, given credit for time served between April 30, 2024 and Feb. 6, 2025, and granted immediate parole, per court records.

Perez-Ramos pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, disorderly conduct by making unreasonable noise, and possessing an instrument of crime, according to court records.

On Sept. 27, 2024, at 8:42 p.m., police were met by a Lyft driver at headquarters who reported she found a bloody knife in her vehicle following an incident that she witnessed at Madison Court Apartments on Madison Avenue, police said.

The driver told police that she went to pick up a passenger at 7:30 p.m., who police said was Perez-Ramos, who exited an apartment building with a man, and began loading belongings into the rear hatch of the Lyft car, per the complaint.

Police said the driver, via the rearview mirror, noticed Perez-Ramos having a physical fight with the man, and making aggressive motions that resembled stabbing toward the victim.

Perez-Ramos ran back into the rear passenger seat of the Lyft ride, and the driver told her to get out of the car and that the ride was cancelled.

After picking up another passenger, the driver was made aware that a bloody kitchen knife was located in the backseat, police said.

Police said the knife was a kitchen knife with a 3-inch blade and a plastic handle, with blood on the blade.

At 8:45 p.m., Bucks County emergency radio advised police of a phone call from Abington Police referencing a victim at Holy Redeemer Hospital.

Police met the victim at the hospital, who told them he was stabbed in the right thigh at the apartment complex by Perez-Ramos.

The victim, after being discharged from the hospital, was interviewed by detectives, who told them the defendant was at his apartment to retrieve items, police said. He called Perez-Ramos a Lyft, while also calling two friends to pick him up, per the complaint.

Police said the friends arrived at the same time as the Lyft ride. Perez-Ramos began to approach the friends’ vehicle and started to yell at them and attempted to open the door handle of the car.

When the victim told Perez-Ramos to stop, she stabbed him in the right thigh. The victim suffered a laceration that required stitches, police said.

According to the complaint, Perez-Ramos messaged the victim, stating she was sorry.

The friends of the victim told police that Perez-Ramos had a knife in her hand, while approaching their car in the apartment parking lot, yelling, “I will kill you all."

All suspects and defendants are innocent until proven guilty. This story was compiled using public court records.