2023-08-29 21:29:19
A 41-year-old janitor, of Venezuelan origin, stabbed his wife and two young children on Monday, before committing suicide, an event that has caused a commotion this Tuesday in the exclusive neighborhood where the events took place and the workplace of the aforementioned.
Police identified the father as Edison Lopez, who allegedly stabbed to death his wife Alexandra Witek, 40, and their sons Calvin and Lucien, ages 1 and 3, respectively, and said they recovered several knives from the family’s apartment. .
They added that there was no history or indications that there was domestic violence between them..
The family was found by Edison’s parents, Mario Lopez and his wife, when they were bleeding to death in their apartment on 86th Street and Riverside Drive, on the west side of the city, an upper-class neighborhood where Lopez was the superintendent (janitor). of the building.
The 61-year-old father said he was with them over the weekend and saw no signs of distress in his son. “Nothing Seemed Wrong”he told the portal www.gothamist.com.
López and his wife went to their son’s home on Monday after they could not communicate with him. Since they couldn’t open the apartment door, Edison’s father picked a lock.
“We saw them inside. They were already dead, maybe it happened the day before”said the man, before recalling that Edison was scheduled to start a new job next week as a manager in another building, which would mean that the family could move to a larger apartment.
Residents of the building have said they were surprised because they saw Edison grow up with his father, who was previously the manager of the same building, and form his own family with Witek, a young woman of Polish origin who also grew up in the same neighborhood and had known each other since very young.
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