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 response to 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 response to the NYPD.
The sufferer — whose head was chopped off his physique, in response to sources — was pronounced useless on the scene, cops mentioned.
The 19-year-old son of the sufferer’s girlfriend was arrested on the scene, however has not but been charged, in response to sources and mates.
The butchered man was a DSNY employee who was pressured to go on incapacity on account of extreme imaginative and prescient loss, a detailed good friend instructed The Put up outdoors the taped-off house.
The teenager — who has an extended historical past of psychological well being points — allegedly instructed his youthful sister that he “did one thing unhealthy” when she got here house from faculty, sources mentioned.
The sister then walked into the house by 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 stories, in response to sources.
Cops have been nonetheless swarming the one-story property on Monday evening as a handful of neighbors gathered throughout the road.
Longtime shut mates 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 against the law scene. It’s loopy. I can’t even consider I used to be taking a look at my good friend’s home on the TV display screen. And I needed to rise up and run over right here as a result of I didn’t wish to consider that it was true till I noticed it with my eyes,” Louis instructed The Put up.
“This didn’t need to occur to him. He was nearly to retire and dwell his life as finest as he might,” Donna mentioned 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 on account of his growing imaginative and prescient loss — which he mentioned “completely” made him a extra weak sufferer.
“That is robust. I simply misplaced a good friend… He was easy-going, man. He was an excellent particular person. He did something for anyone. He’d take his shirt off his again and provides it to you in case you wanted it.”
He additionally described the Staten Island man as “the nicest man on this planet” and a “good particular person” who cherished fishing.
The couple had been collectively practically six years and “at all times had their ups and downs with the youngsters,” he added.
Louis claimed the teenage particular person of curiosity was at all times “candy as pie” and regularly performed video video games with Donna’s stepson regardless of having recognized psychological well being points.
“The boy was at all times going by stuff at school. Psychological well being points. Town obtained to do extra with psychological well being,” he mentioned.
His spouse Donna, a medical employee who used to work at a psych heart, echoed the call-out on psychological well being points and mentioned the indicators have been there.
“He’d be alive proper now if the town handled psychological well being,” she mentioned of their good friend.
Neighbor Mariano Castro, 36, instructed The Put up 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 mentioned.
The incident stays below investigation.
Extra reporting by Larry Celona.
