Double tragedy: woman was stabbed and her boyfriend jumped into the void from an apartment in New York
A 61-year-old woman was stabbed to death and her boyfriend later jumped to death from their Brooklyn apartment, in a probable murder-suicide case. this morning, reported NYPD.
Troopers responded to a 911 call from a concerned neighbor about “commotion” inside a 4th-floor apartment on Sixth Avenue near 53rd Street in the Sunset Park neighborhood just after 2 am today. Upon arrival, officers discovered a seriously injured woman, authorities said.
The victim lay in the hallway area with multiple cuts to the head, neck, and upper torso.. Paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene. A bloody knife, hammer and screwdriver were discovered nearby, the sources said.
The 52-year-old man, who police believe was the deceased’s boyfriend, was later found “unconscious” on the ground outside the building, authorities said. He too was pronounced dead at the scene and officers believe he jumped from the building. He recovered a knife near his corpse, he narrowed New York Post.
In a similar case, a month ago a man fatally shot his girlfriend inside a Bronx apartment building before turning the gun on himself. And in August, also in that county, a Hispanic man fatally shot himself in the head after shooting his wife in the foot at his home.
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