On Sept. 15, students were preparing for a homecoming comedy show when Simpson and Frazier got into an argument over loud music playing from Frazier’s iPod.
The two had had a number of fights that semester. The attorney for the defense said Simpson told dorm management, “They are threatening me, and I’m afraid they are going to jump me … I just want to change rooms.†But her request was denied.
In the fight that continued, Simpson took out a pocket knife to defend herself and cut Frazier’s neck in the scuffle.
“Kiaira (Johnson, the victim’s friend) began to attack, pulling me by my hair, and I was scared,” Simpson said on the witness stand. “I did not
know what they were going to do next. They continued to hit me, so I swung the knife … Then Dominique stopped swinging and grabbed her neck and blood was coming out, and I just wanted to help her.â€Read more and watch the video at NBC.