A New York Metropolis Sanitation employee who was nearing retirement was allegedly decapitated by his girlfriend’s troubled teenage son inside a Staten Island house Monday, in keeping with cops and sources.
Police responded to a stunning 911 name of a person stabbed — and reportedly decapitated — inside a Cary Avenue house in West Brighton simply after 4:20 p.m. and found the 45-year-old sufferer with a number of stab wounds to his head and neck, in keeping with the NYPD.
The sufferer — whose head was chopped off his physique, in keeping with sources — was pronounced lifeless on the scene, cops stated.
The 19-year-old son of the sufferer’s girlfriend was arrested on the scene, however has not but been charged, in keeping with sources and buddies.
The butchered man was a DSNY employee who was compelled to go on incapacity as a result of extreme imaginative and prescient loss, an in depth good friend instructed The Publish outdoors the taped-off house.
The teenager — who has a protracted historical past of psychological well being points — allegedly instructed his youthful sister that he “did one thing dangerous” when she got here house from faculty, sources stated.
The sister then walked into the house via a number of blood trails and located the 45-year-old decapitated within the rest room tub with a knife nonetheless in his neck, sources added.
The incident was home in nature, and the household has a historical past of home incident studies, in keeping with sources.
Cops had been nonetheless swarming the one-story property on Monday night time as a handful of neighbors gathered throughout the road.
Longtime shut buddies of the sufferer, Louis Ortiz, 47, and Donna Ortiz, 46, rushed to the house after seeing the information of the sanitation staff’ killing on TV.
“It’s a criminal offense scene. It’s loopy. I can’t even imagine I used to be taking a look at my good friend’s home on the TV display. And I needed to rise up and run over right here as a result of I didn’t wish to imagine that it was true till I noticed it with my eyes,” Louis instructed The Publish.
“This didn’t need to occur to him. He was nearly to retire and stay his life as greatest as he may,” Donna stated of their slain good friend.
Louis had seen the sufferer, who has not been publicly recognized, simply days earlier than to assist him purchase a truck for his girlfriend as a result of his rising imaginative and prescient loss — which he stated “completely” made him a extra susceptible sufferer.
“That is robust. I simply misplaced a good friend… He was easy-going, man. He was a very good particular person. He did something for anyone. He’d take his shirt off his again and provides it to you when you wanted it.”
He additionally described the Staten Island man as “the nicest man on this planet” and a “good particular person” who beloved fishing.
The couple had been collectively almost six years and “all the time had their ups and downs with the children,” he added.
Louis claimed the teenage particular person of curiosity was all the time “candy as pie” and regularly performed video video games with Donna’s stepson regardless of having identified psychological well being points.
“The boy was all the time going via stuff at school. Psychological well being points. Town received to do extra with psychological well being,” he stated.
His spouse Donna, a medical employee who used to work at a psych middle, echoed the call-out on psychological well being points and stated the indicators had been there.
“He’d be alive proper now if the town handled psychological well being,” she stated of their good friend.
Neighbor Mariano Castro, 36, instructed The Publish he by no means observed something amiss between the sufferer and the girlfriend’s son, noting he lately noticed the 2 of their yard mowing the garden and grilling on the barbecue.
“I by no means noticed them combating one another, in order that’s fully loopy. That’s all I can say,” the shaken building employee stated.
The incident stays underneath investigation.
Further reporting by Larry Celona.
