A Palm Bay woman attacked her boyfriend with a vase and fork after seeing a social media post depicting him on a date with another woman, police said.

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Andrea Louise Heflin, 29, was arrested and turned over to a Brevard County detention facility, a Palm Bay Police report stated.

According to the report:

Heflin saw a social media post "that would confirm infidelity" and got into an argument with her live-in boyfriend. During the argument, she charged at him and struck him on the right side of his head with a vase. She then grabbed a fork from the kitchen and tried to stab him on the left hand.

Heflin told officers that the boyfriend tried to attack her, but her own juvenile children corroborated the boyfriend's statement to police, saying Heflin hit her boyfriend repeatedly as he tried to hold her back, police said.