MIAMI (Court TV) — A Florida woman charged with second-degree murder took the stand to defend her actions, telling jurors she shot and killed her boyfriend in self-defense after he violently attacked her during a drug-fueled rage.

Daisy Link , 32, testified that she fired a single shot at Pedro Jimenez Sr. on June 25, 2022, after he grabbed her by the hair and threw her to the ground outside her South Florida home. The bullet struck Jimenez in the foot and thigh, severing his femoral artery and causing his death.

Daisy Link testifies in her murder trial on Oct. 15, 2025. (Court TV)

“I wasn’t scared of him when he was sober. It was when he was a monster, on drugs, that I was scared,” Link told the jury during her testimony.

Link described a tumultuous nine-year relationship with Jime

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