ESSEX, Md. — Out of work and battling in the courts to regain visitation rights with his daughter, family members say 31-year-old Howard Sye, Junior had enough when he and his sister apparently got into an argument in the King Mill Apartments in Essex and he ended up stabbing her in the chest.

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“It never went this far,” said their brother, Tabias Sye, “Normally, when they call me and they’re drinking and everything. It’s just, ‘Alright, It’ll end. They argue. They go back and forth and that’ll be the end of it. It never went this far.”

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