U.S. woman accused of fatally stabbing man at German train station after she says he groped her

An American woman is accused of fatally stabbing a man at a train station in southwest Germany, over 60 miles south of Frankfurt.

In a statement on Monday, the Kaiserslautern Public Prosecutor’s Office said the incident took place at the Kaiserslautern Central Station on the afternoon of June 29.

“According to the results of the investigations, the stabbing was preceded by the fact that the 64-year-old sexually harassed the 20-year-old by grabbing her buttocks, an exchange of words, and that the 20-year-old opened a folding knife she was carrying with her, so that she made stabbing movements in the direction of the 64-year-old,” the prosecutor’s office said.

The woman followed the man, who grabbed the arm she was using to wield the knife, according to the prosecutor’s office. She was able to free her arm and stabbed him once in the chest. The man died “within a few seconds.”

The prosecutor’s office did not identify the woman or the man who was stabbed.

The American woman said that she acted in self-defense and did not aim for the man’s heart, the prosecutor’s office said.

The Kaiserslautern Public Prosecutor’s Office charged the woman with bodily injury resulting in death, agreeing with the notion that she did not purposely aim for the man’s heart.

“The accusation of bodily injury resulting in death requires intent only with regard to the bodily injury and (only) negligence with regard to the consequence of death,” the prosecutor’s office said.

The prosecutor’s office brought the charge against the woman to Kaiserslautern Regional Court, which will decide how to proceed.

The U.S. Department of State did not immediately respond to an NBC News request for comment on Tuesday.