Actor Nick Pasqual was sentenced Tuesday to 32 years to life in prison for breaking into his estranged girlfriend’s Los Angeles home in May 2024 and stabbing her more than 20 times — an attack that a judge called brutal and calculating in handing down the maximum term.
Pasqual, 36, was convicted last month of attempted murder, forcible rape, first-degree burglary, injuring a partner, and special allegations that he inflicted great bodily injury under circumstances involving domestic violence, with the jury also finding he personally used a knife during the crime. The sentencing took place at San Fernando Courthouse.
Prosecutors said Pasqual broke into the Sunland home of makeup artist Allie Shehorn during the early morning hours and stabbed her more than 20 times in the neck, chest, back, abdomen, arms, and wrists before fleeing toward the U.S.-Mexico border, where he was arrested at a border checkpoint. Shehorn had recently filed a restraining order against him at the time of the attack.
Shehorn, who survived after emergency surgery and days in intensive care, addressed the court directly at Tuesday’s hearing. “When I was lying on the floor in a pool of my own blood, I remembered wondering if this was how my life was going to end,” she said. “You, who I had once trusted, decided my life was something that you could take away.” She was left with visible scarring along her neck and arms, and continues to deal with partial vision loss and loss of sensation in her hands. Her roommate found her after the attack and saved her life.
Pasqual offered an apology to the court, but the judge rejected it as insincere. The judge cited a recorded phone call from April 29 — just weeks before sentencing — in which Pasqual mocked Shehorn for what she had endured. Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman said in a statement that Shehorn “miraculously survived and courageously stood before her abuser in court,” calling her trial testimony crucial to securing the conviction.
Pasqual and Shehorn first met on the set of Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon in 2023, where Pasqual had an uncredited role and Shehorn worked in the makeup department. His screen credits also include a small role in How I Met Your Mother and an appearance in Archive 81. Shehorn has also filed a civil lawsuit against him, alleging sexual battery, gender violence, assault, battery, negligence, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
