Margaret “Maggie” Sarah Kloske (Photo courtesy James City County Police Department)
Margaret Sarah Kloske wanted her husband to watch her kill herself.
She wanted him to feel the same pain she felt when she found out he had been cheating on her.
Kloske, 25, described her relationship with her husband, Alfredo Alfredo Alvarado Jr., during her sentencing hearing Wednesday in Williamsburg-James City County Circuit Court, recounting how he had been unfaithful to her.
She said the two had been in relationship since she was 16 years old and married a month before she caught him cheating.
After spending a weekend in September with Alvarado moving her possessions out of her storage unit and into the apartment they shared, she was on her way back to Fort Bragg, N.C., where she worked as an automated logistical specialist for the military, when she realized Alvarado left his cell phone in her car.
When she scrolled through text messages in his phone, she discovered he was having an affair.
She argued with Alvarado and his roommate on the phone during the drive, telling them she wanted to end her life.
When she got home, she received texts from the woman her husband was allegedly seeing. The woman told her nothing was going to change, and that she was still in Kloske’s bed with Alvarado.
At that point, Kloske decided to return to Williamsburg. But first, she stopped by her parents’ home in Fayetteville to grab a .45 caliber revolver, which she intended to use on herself.
She said she did not remember anything from the drive back to Williamsburg except that she spoke to God.
“I was tired of hurting,” she said during her hearing.
Upon arrival at the apartment on Stratford Road, she entered through a window as the front door was locked. Then she went to the bedroom door.
“I wanted him to actually lay there and watch me kill myself,” she said.
She began attempting to break down the door, screaming at Alvarado, who was on the other side. At one point, the gun she was holding went off, shooting a bullet into the ground.
Alvarado then opened the door and grabbed the gun out of her hand. Then Kloske began punching Alvarado’s girlfriend repeatedly in the head, according to a report by James City County Police.
The girlfriend, who was not injured, then ran out of the apartment.
Police came and arrested Kloske, charging her with breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony, two counts of attempted malicious wounding, assault and battery, reckless handling of a firearm and discharging a firearm in an occupied dwelling.
“At what point in time did reality set in?” Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Michael Gaten asked after Kloske finished describing the incident.
“Reality did not set in” until she found herself in a jumpsuit at the Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail, she told Gaten.
Kloske — who received honorable discharge from the military for the incident — pleaded guilty in May two counts of assault and battery, one count of breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony and one count of unlawful shooting.
Williamsburg-James City County Circuit Court Judge Michael McGinty agreed to amend the felony unlawful shooting charge to a misdemeanor reckless handling of a firearm Wednesday.
He sentenced her to four years in prison with all but four months suspended. Kloske has already served those four months from the time of her arrest to when she was released from Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail in January.
She said she placed her husband on the no-visit list while in jail and has refused to speak with him, reporting his attempts to contact her.
“I want a divorce,” she told the court.
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