Faulty reasoning signals

• Confirmation Bias - 6.4% (35 hits)
• Anchoring Bias - 7% (38 hits)
• Availability Heuristic - 2.6% (14 hits)
• Representativeness Heuristic - 1.1% (6 hits)
• Hindsight Bias - 0%
• Overconfidence Bias - 0%
• Framing Effect - 3.5% (19 hits)
• Loss Aversion - 0%
• Status Quo Bias - 0%
• Sunk Cost Effect - 0%
• Optimism Bias - 0%
• Pessimism Bias - 0.9% (5 hits)

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Woman stabbed to death by close friend during boozy bbq outside their Bronx building

A Bronx woman stabbed and slashed one of her best friends to death during a boozy fight outside the Bronx apartment building where they both lived, cops and a witness who knows both women said Monday.

Lexus Bullock, 27, is accused of stabbing the 31-year-old victim in the chest and slashing her neck at the five-story building on Teller Ave. near E. 171st St. about 10:20 p.m.

Sunday.

The victim, identified by friends as Thalia Woods, and the suspect lived in separate apartments but were close friends, neighbors said.

They were outside the building drinking together all day at a barbecue before the night turned sour, neighbors said.

“They were best friends,” said a 34-year-old resident of the building, who only gave her first name, Shannel.

“We were all drinking.

I tried to stop the fight.”

The women were sitting on Bullock's car talking and then arguing, witnesses said.

“I don’t know what they were fighting for,” Shannel said.

“I got them to calm down and then once Thalia punched her in her face, the girl (Bullock) went in her car, got a knife … I tried to stop it but she kept swinging the knife all crazy.”

“We don’t know what the argument was over.

I don’t think they know what the argument was over.

There was a lot of alcohol,” said a detective with knowledge of the case.

The victim told Shannel to call for an ambulance, the neighbor said.

Cops arrested Bullock for murder, manslaughter, and criminal possession of a weapon.

Her arraignment was pending in Bronx Criminal Court Monday.

Investigators loaded Bullock's car onto an NYPD truck and hauled it away Monday afternoon.

Woods was just a few weeks from graduating nursing school, an unnamed family member said.

“There’s no forgiveness because it was senseless.

We were all friends.

She has to do her time,” Shannel said.

“I feel bad for Woods.

It was stupid and senseless and it happened right in front of my face.

I’ll never be the same.”

“They had a history,” said a mutual friend who declined to give his name.

“They both came out of shelters.

They would have a drink, have a hiccup, and then make up.

They've been off and on over little things, but then they would make up,” the friend said.

”This time there was a lot of drink, and they got into it, and it went too far and crossed the line,” he added.

Bullock was free without bail at the time of the stabbing after her arrest on May 24 in a misdemeanor domestic violence case on charges she attacked the father of her child inside her apartment.

Bullock punched the 30-year-old man, Mahamudu Tunkara, in the face and choked him while Tunkara punched Bullock as well, splitting her lip, according to a pair of criminal complaints.

Both were arrested on charges of assault and harassment, while Bullock was also charged with criminal obstruction of breathing.

A relative of Woods who declined to give her name said they considered the suspect like family.

“We're still friends with the person that did it.

That's like my niece,” the relative of the victim said.

“It's a complicated situation.”