The deranged ex-boyfriend accused within the vicious ambush homicide of his on-again, off-again girlfriend in a Harlem constructing was charged Tuesday – after whining to cops she had been his “whole life,” cops and sources stated.
Luis Marquez, 41, allegedly knifed mother-of-four Carmen Lopez, 47, as many as “50 occasions” Monday when he attacked her inside her West 129th Avenue condominium constructing – the place he heartlessly left her to die alone within the hallway as her two children slept inside, authorities and sources stated.
Marquez, of the Bronx, was apparently enraged with jealousy as a result of the sufferer used him and didn’t make him a “precedence,” the sources stated.
He described Lopez — whom he’d dated on and off for about 5 years — as his “whole life” to police whereas in custody, although the 2 had been not collectively on the time of the slaying, the sources added.
Constructing porter Lyron Middleton occurred to be cleansing the staircase when he stumbled upon Lopez lined in blood and referred to as 911, he stated Monday.
Lopez was rushed to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, the place she succumbed to her grave accidents, cops stated.
Surveillance footage – which Middleton couldn’t bear to look at however solely listened to the audio – captured the second the attacker ambushed Lopez after apparently ready exterior the elevator for 2 hours, sources and the porter stated.
“She was yelling out somebody’s title because it was taking place,” Middleton stated of the footage. “They are saying, ‘Luis, Luis, Luis. Luis cease, Luis cease.’”
The children, 10 and 18, had been sleeping inside whereas their mother was brutally attacked, the sources stated.
Marquez, in the meantime, went to his house and rambled to his household repeating time and again that he had killed her, in accordance with the sources. His relations took the disturbed slasher to an area hospital, which is the place police first took him into custody, sources stated.
On the sufferer’s house Tuesday a girl who recognized herself Tuesday as Zoila, Lopez’s sister, refused to speak apart from tearful replies of “sure” when requested whether or not her slain sibling was an excellent girl, and whether or not she was hurting.
One other girl who confirmed up on the constructing stated in Spanish that Lopez was initially from the Dominican Republic.
A constructing superintendent instructed reporters Monday that Lopez had 4 children, two who stay together with her and two who’re older and stay in New Jersey.
“I don’t understand how did this occur, as a result of they don’t seem to be an issue individual, any one in all them. They’re good [people], like our household,” the employee stated.
Marquez’s expenses got here after he was initially introduced by authorities to Lincoln Medical Middle for a 24-hour psychiatric maintain, in accordance with the sources.
