Police have identified the woman who they say was stabbed and killed by her fiancee Saturday night in his Courtview Square apartment as 25-year-old Lynda Sanon of Wallingford.

Meanwhile the man, Evens St. Hilaire, 31, of 309 Crystal Ave., Apt. 9B, was arraigned today in New London Superior Court on  murder charges after police say he stabbed Sanon several times in the neck.

St. Hilaire did not speak during the brief court appearance in which he wore a hospital gown because his clothes had been taken as possible evidence.

According to a prosecutor's report, St. Hilaire told police Sanon was his fiancee and they had been dating for nine months. They were supposed to get married in late May but he told police their relationship was recently strained.

According to the prosecutor's report, Sanon went to St. Hilaire's apartment unannounced around 6 or 7 p.m. Saturday and took his smart phone to look up a phone number for a woman he knows only as "Princess." Sanon called the number and spoke to the woman's aunt and, St. Hilaire said, a short time later Sanon spoke to the woman referred to as "Princess."

St. Hilaire said that around 8 or 9 p.m., he and Sanon continued to fight. She threatened to harm herself by jumping out the window. Sanon then, according to St. Hilaire, took a knife from a dresser drawer in the bedroom and raised it up.

"He stated because he felt threatened he grabbed the knife from her hand and stabbed the victim in the throat," the report said. "St. Hilaire initially reported that the only stabbed her in the throat one time but later stated he stabbed her two times in the neck."

St. Hilaire told police that Sanon was unresponsive and he attempted CPR. He said she was making strained breathing noises but he was scared about getting in trouble so he did not call 911.

He also told police that he washed the knife and changed his clothes.

He told police that he took Sanon's car and intended to drive to her mother's house in Wallingford but offered police no explanation as to why he wanted to drive there.

St. Hilaire said he spoke to two family members and a close friend about the incident. All three told him to call an ambulance.

He initially did not call, but while driving north on Interstate 95 towards New London he called New London police.

Police said they received a call at 10:48 p.m. from St. Hilaire, telling them that Sanon was stabbed in the neck and that police should send an ambulance.

The dispatcher, using an automatic location identification, traced St. Hilaire to the area of Old Saybrook. He told police he was driving back to New London but instead turned himself in to a state trooper who was pulled over the side of Interstate 95. The trooper detained him.

As St. Hilaire was on the phone with the dispatcher, police went to his apartment and forced their way inside, where they found Sanon lying on the floor with a wound to her neck and blood on the floor next to her head.

First aid was administered but she was pronounced dead at 11:09 p.m.

A bail commissioner said today that St. Hilaire, who is from Haiti, has been in the United tates for 20 years and living in Connecticut for more than 10. He has no criminal record.

The commissioner said he worked at Mohegan Sun as a dealer.

He asked Judge Arthur Hadden to maintain St. Hilaire's bond at $1 million.

Kensley Barrett, a certified legal intern for the prosecution, also requested Hadden to leave the bond at $1 million because of the "serious nature of the charge."

Hadden agreed and transferred the case to Part A in New London for April 4, where the most serious crimes are tried.