Nick Pasqual, known for roles in “How I Met Your Mother” and Zack Snyder’s “Rebel Moon,” was sentenced to 32 years to life after a May conviction tied to the 2024 stabbing of his estranged girlfriend, Los Angeles makeup artist Allie Shehorn.
Nick Pasqual knew the punishment was coming, but for Allie Shehorn, the courtroom moment still carried the weight of the night she said she thought her life was ending.
Pasqual. an actor who appeared on “How I Met Your Mother” and in the Zack Snyder film “Rebel Moon. ” was sentenced to 32 years to life in prison. The sentence followed his May conviction for attempted murder and other charges stemming from the 2024 stabbing attack on his estranged girlfriend. makeup artist Allie Shehorn. based in Los Angeles.
Jurors found Pasqual guilty of attempted murder. They also found special allegations that the attack caused great bodily injury in a domestic case involving a weapon. The conviction included three counts of injuring a spouse or partner. one count of first-degree burglary. and one count of forcible rape tied to an alleged incident a month before the stabbing.
Shehorn attended the sentencing on Tuesday at the San Fernando Courthouse. She told the court she was still able to reach back to the physical reality of what happened to her.
“When I was lying on the floor in a pool of my own blood, I remembered wondering if this was how my life was going to end,” Shehorn said Tuesday. “I was terrified, I was in pain.”
“You, who I had once trusted, decided my life was something that you could take away,” she added.
Shehorn is a special effects and makeup artist who has worked on a range of projects, including the 2024 “Mean Girls” musical remake, the two “Rebel Moon” movies, and the horror sensation “Obsession.” During the trial, she previously appeared as a witness with visible scars on her neck and arm.
At trial, Shehorn described what she did in the moments after the attack began. She testified that she locked the door, then said Pasqual started punching holes in it and broke it open. She told the court she ran into the bathroom because she believed there was another lock on that door.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said Pasqual fled after the stabbing and was later detained at a U.S.-Mexico border checkpoint in Sierra Blanca, Texas.
The sentence brings an end to a case that began with a restraining order and, Shehorn said, escalated into an assault so violent she was left remembering blood, fear, and pain while jurors weighed the full set of charges against Pasqual.
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32 years?? For like… a stabbing. Man that’s insane.
I swear actors always think they’ll get some slap on the wrist. If it was attempted murder and rape allegations too then yeah, 32 years sounds about right. I didn’t even know her til this popped up.
Wait so was this the same guy from Rebel Moon or am I mixing him up? Because I saw something on TikTok like “he ran to Mexico” and I thought that was just like escaping a ticket lol. 32 to life still seems crazy long, but if the jury found him guilty then whatever.
The part about her reaching back to the physical reality like… that’s just brutal. Also restraining order to all this? Makes me think LA courts are too soft, like it should’ve stopped earlier. How does someone even go from a relationship to burglary and rape charges in one month, and then they still get convicted like normal? I just can’t wrap my head around it.