A 56-year-old man, arrested for assaulting his boss with a machete, “cutting” his nose

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A man is in jail after deputies say he cut off a woman’s nose while attacking two people with a machete at a stable in Palm Beach County.

Abundio Jasso, 56, appeared in court Wednesday morning after an overnight arrest.

Palm Beach County Judge Donald Hafele called Jasso’s charges “very serious” during his first appearance.

According to court documents obtained by WPTV reporter Victor Jorges, Jasso was employed as a horse groom at a stable run by Aimee Waters. Court records said Waters told deputies Jasso refused to do his job and would often drink on the job.

Waters told deputies the man attacked her Tuesday night after she went to check on the construction and asked him to finish his chores.

He approached Jasso with another person who lived at the stable, Joseph Hawk, according to the probable cause affidavit in that case.

Jasso reportedly lives on the job site and refused to finish his chores and shined a flashlight in the eyes of Waters and Hawk before the two finished Jasso’s chores at the stable.

It appears he then approached Hawks and Waters, flashed their eyes again and punched Waters “violently in the face causing her to fall to the ground”.

Court records said Hawks got between Jasso and Waters and they were able to escape and call 911. The document said Hawk saw Jasso hit Waters, “cutting her nose completely off her face.”

Jasso admitted to deputies who responded to the call that he had hit them with the machete.

He faces two counts of attempted first-degree murder.