纽约Queens男子被控谋杀分居妻子：24岁女子身中约40刀、2岁儿子当时在场
位于美国纽约州纽约市 Queens 区的检察官办公室10月29日宣布，Richmond Hill 男子 Angel Apodaca 被控谋杀其分居妻子、24岁的 Tania Morales Garcia；检方称，他前往妻子与两人2岁儿子居住的 Kew Gardens Hills 公寓，涉嫌将她多次刺死。
Queens 区检察官 Melinda Katz 说，据指控，Apodaca 残忍地将分居妻子刺了约40刀，这场无谓的暴行发生时，夫妻俩2岁的儿子就在家中；检察官办公室向受害人的亲人致以慰问，并表示将为她讨回公道。
Apodaca 现年22岁，住 Richmond Hill，10月29日依刑事诉状过堂，被控二级谋杀、四级非法持有武器与危害儿童福利罪名。Queens 最高刑事法院法官 Thomas Wright-Fernandez 下令将其还押候审，并定于11月1日再次出庭；若定罪，他面临25年至终身监禁。
据检方指控与调查，10月26日约19时至20时40分之间，Apodaca 在 Park Drive East 的公寓内刺死 Morales Garcia，两人的2岁儿子当时在家。多通911报警电话将警方引至该公寓；纽约市警察局（NYPD）警员到场时，发现受害人倒卧在卧室血泊中失去反应，头部与身体多处刀伤、手臂有割伤。
被告当时也在公寓内，手上有割伤、衣物沾血；受害人的2岁儿子也在公寓内，衣物沾血。受害人被送往当地医院后因伤不治，伤情包括约40处刺伤、多数位于背部。幼童被送往当地医院检查，确认没有身体伤害。警方在梳妆台上查获一把沾血的刀。Apodaca 被送往当地医院治疗手部割伤。
案件由第107分局探员小队探员 Abigail Soto 与 Queens 南区凶杀组探员 Anthony Faranda 调查，检察官办公室凶杀局助理检察官 Samantha Delao 负责起诉、助理检察官 Caitlyn Muldoon 协助。检察官办公室强调，刑事诉状仅为指控，被告在被证明有罪之前推定无罪。
Queens Man Charged With Murder of Estranged Wife: 24-Year-Old Woman Stabbed About 40 Times as Toddler Son Was Home
NEW YORK — The Queens County District Attorney's Office announced on October 29 that Angel Apodaca of Richmond Hill has been charged with murder in the death of his estranged wife, 24-year-old Tania Morales Garcia. Prosecutors said Apodaca went to her Kew Gardens Hills apartment, where she lived with the couple's 2-year-old son, and allegedly stabbed her multiple times.
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said that, as alleged, Apodaca ruthlessly stabbed his estranged wife approximately 40 times, and that the senseless brutality was carried out while the couple's 2-year-old son was in the home. She said the office's thoughts are with Morales Garcia's loved ones as it seeks justice on her behalf.
Apodaca, 22, of Richmond Hill, was arraigned on a criminal complaint charging him with murder in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and endangering the welfare of a child. Queens Supreme Criminal Court Judge Thomas Wright-Fernandez remanded him and ordered him to return to court on November 1. He faces up to 25 years to life in prison, if convicted.
According to the charges and the investigation, on October 26, between approximately 7 p.m. and 8:40 p.m., Apodaca stabbed Morales Garcia to death in her apartment on Park Drive East in Kew Gardens Hills, while the couple's 2-year-old son was at home. Police received multiple 911 calls directing them to the apartment. When NYPD officers arrived, they found Morales Garcia lying unresponsive in a pool of blood in the bedroom, with multiple stab wounds to her head and body and slash wounds on her arms.
The defendant was present in the apartment, with cuts on his hands and blood on his clothing, and the 2-year-old son was also in the apartment with blood on his clothing. Morales Garcia was taken to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead from injuries that included approximately 40 stab wounds, a majority of them to her back. The child was evaluated at a local hospital and was determined to have no physical injuries. A knife with blood on it was recovered from a dresser, and Apodaca was taken to a local hospital for treatment of the cuts on his hands.
The investigation was conducted by Detective Abigail Soto of the 107th Precinct Detective Squad and Detective Anthony Faranda of the Queens South Homicide Squad. Assistant District Attorney Samantha Delao of the District Attorney's Homicide Bureau is prosecuting the case, with the assistance of Assistant District Attorney Caitlyn Muldoon. The District Attorney's Office noted that criminal complaints are accusations, and a defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
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