Danielle Jones before the attack (Picture: GoFundMe)
A woman is in a coma after being attacked by a roommate she met on Craigslist, her family claims.
Danielle Jones was strangled and cut up on her 23rd birthday in Miami.
She was left with a brain injury, huge scars on her face and neck, and her mother doesn’t know if she will ever wake up.
Byron Mitchell, 35, has been charged with attempted murder, but claimed to police he was acting in self defence as the victim had a knife.
Danielle’s mum Aimee Nikolove told NBC: ‘I’m still in shock, I can’t comprehend that someone can do this to someone, mutilate them in such a way and try to kill them.

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Danielle Jones after she was attack (Picture: GoFundMe)
‘My daughter’s face is cut up like he was going to take her face off. She has a brain injury, no one knows what the prognosis is.’
Mitchell had moved in with Danielle just a week before it happened.
In a GoFundMe post, her cousin Kaitlin Cabot wrote: ‘She is in a coma, intubated and holding on to life… If and she wakes, she will need extensive care and rehabilitation.’
This photo provided by Miami-Dade Corrections Department shows Byron Mitchell. A South Florida woman is hospitalized in a coma after she was allegedly attacked by Mitchell, a roommate she recently found on Craigslist. Court records show Mitchell is jailed on attempted murder charges in the Feb. 14, 2016 attack on Danielle Jones. Mitchell has entered a written not guilty plea. (Miami-Dade Corrections Department via AP)
Byron Mitchell denies attempted murder (Picture: Miami-Dade Corrections Department via AP)