The monster who ambushed his estranged girlfriend in her Harlem condo constructing and stabbed her as many as 50 occasions claimed he was blackout drunk and might’t keep in mind, prosecutors stated Wednesday.
Luis Marquez, 41, was arraigned on homicide expenses and ordered held with out bail within the vicious early Monday morning assault on Carmen Lopez, his on-again, off-again girlfriend of 5 years — as disturbing new particulars within the blood-curdling assault emerged, prosecutors stated.
Marquez allegedly stalked Lopez throughout her evening out with pals at an area membership, then lay in look forward to greater than two hours within the stairwell of her West 129th Avenue condo till she returned residence round 4 a.m., Manhattan Assistant District Legal professional Jonathan Junig stated in courtroom.
“When the sufferer exited the elevator onto her ground, [Marquez] lunged at her, pinned her to the bottom and repeatedly stabbed her in her abdomen, her throat and her chest,” Junig stated.
“Even because the sufferer laid immobile on the bottom coated in blood, [Marquez] continued to plunge the knife into her chest with each fingers to make sure her demise.”
Lopez was heard repeatedly screaming, “No, Luis,” through the relentless assault.
Prosecutors stated the knife punctured each her liver and aorta.
Marquez allegedly returned residence to the Bronx and confessed to family members, and was arrested after an acquaintance took him to an area hospital for psychiatric statement, authorities stated.
“Throughout an interview post-Miranda [rights], [Marquez] claimed he was blackout drunk and had no reminiscence of what occurred,” Junig stated, including that the accused killer did determine himself on surveillance images and video from the scene of the grotesque crime.
Police stated Lopez, 47, has 4 kids, together with two who had been asleep in her condo simply steps away from the place she was left to die within the hallway. A upkeep employee later discovered her.
In courtroom Wednesday, Marquez, nonetheless sporting the Hollister jacket he wore when he was arrested, remained expressionless as a Spanish-language interpreter translated the proceedings.
He and Lopez sometimes dated over the previous a number of years, with pals describing Marquez as insanely jealous and more and more livid she didn’t focus extra of her consideration on him.
His arrest surprised coworkers at RE Meat Market on Ogden Avenue, the place he had labored for almost six months — and had clocked out simply hours earlier than the slaying.
“I’ve a headache for the reason that day I discovered,” meat market proprietor Ramon Cedano informed The Publish. “All people is shocked, I’m telling you. He doesn’t speak, nothing, nothing. It’s like I might by no means hurt anyone and for me to do one thing like this and other people are available in and say, ‘Ramon did this,’ it’s like all people is gonna be shocked. It’s the identical with him.
“You may ask the entire neighborhood and so they’re gonna inform you a similar factor.”
Neighbors stated Marquez rented a room within the Bronx and by no means appeared to trigger bother, visiting an area barber store each Friday to have his head shaved.
“He’s by no means an issue. He’s very quiet. He’s closed-mouthed,” barber Santiago Torres stated. “I’m telling you, all people’s nonetheless in shock.”
Marquez is due again in courtroom on Nov. 17 and faces a most jail sentence of 25 years to life if convicted.
