“We brought it to our family”

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — A Tucson woman is in the ICU after her boyfriend tried to kill her. The incident happened Monday just after 3 p.m. near Stone and Mohave. Officers arrested Caid Stough, 23, on suspicion of attempted manslaughter of Jasmin Rede. He is being held on $1 million bail.

KGUN 9’s Heidi Alagha spoke to Pedro Rede, Jasmin’s younger brother. He says he met Caid in high school in Marana, where they all grew up. The couple has three children together.

“When I first met Caid, he was a nice guy. He wasn’t like he is now. It’s not something you’d expect a friend to do, especially with your sister,” says Pedro Rede.

A few years ago, Pedro lived with Jasmin and Caid. He ended up moving to Texas, saying he left home with a bad impression of Caid because he felt his sister was being mistreated.

Now Pedro is back in Tucson, with his sister as he recovers at Banner-University Medical Center. He says, “I feel like he knows what he did was wrong and he needs to pay the price for what he did, which is to stay in the system. I hope they never let him out.”

Man speaks out after sister was stabbed: ‘We brought him into our family’

Pedro Rede remembers how he felt before this incident left his sister fighting for her life. “It was like I knew this guy was no good. I had a bad feeling, a very bad feeling.”

Jasmin is still in ICU, on a breathing tube. She still can’t speak, but her brother says she’s making a lot of progress. He says, “It breaks my heart that my sister has to go through this with him. It breaks my heart that he did that to my sister. And I just didn’t expect that from Caid. I never thought Caid would do something like that or that he would be capable of doing something like that and I think a lot of us brought him into our family and got to meet his family. Everything was amazing, it was perfect, but then everything started to fall apart really quickly and we started to worry about Jasmin.”

Pedro says things started to go wrong and his mother even mentioned to him that she was worried about the situation. “She would call me and say, ‘I don’t trust Caid.’ This was about five months ago. Actually, it was more like a year ago.”

Pedro added that Jasmin was not the type to talk about her relationship with Caid and that she kept things private. He says that she is the type to handle the situation on her own and not involve others, and finally added that she loved Caid, so she was not seeing the signs that were in front of her.

Pedro expressed his gratitude to Jasmin’s neighbors, paramedics, doctors and nurses who helped keep her alive after this domestic violence incident.

If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, help is available 24/7.

Call 800-799-SAFE or visit https://www.thehotline.org/.