The deranged ex-boyfriend accused within the vicious ambush homicide of his on-again, off-again girlfriend in a Harlem constructing was charged Tuesday – after whining to cops she had been his “total life,” cops and sources mentioned.
Luis Marquez, 41, allegedly knifed mother-of-four Carmen Lopez, 47, as many as “50 occasions” Monday when he attacked her inside her West 129th Road condominium constructing – the place he heartlessly left her to die alone within the hallway, authorities and sources mentioned.
Marquez, of the Bronx, was apparently enraged with jealousy as a result of the sufferer used him and didn’t make him a “precedence,” the sources mentioned.
He described Lopez as his “total life” to police whereas in custody although the 2 had been not collectively on the time of the slaying, the sources added.
Constructing porter Lyron Middleton occurred to be cleansing the staircase when he stumbled upon Lopez lined in blood and known as 911, he mentioned Monday.
Lopez was rushed to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, the place she succumbed to her grave accidents, cops mentioned.
Surveillance footage – which Middleton couldn’t bear to look at however solely listened to the audio – captured the second the attacker ambushed Lopez after apparently ready on the steps for 2 hours, sources and the porter mentioned.
“She was yelling out somebody’s title because it was taking place,” Middleton mentioned of the footage. “They are saying, ‘Luis, Luis, Luis. Luis cease, Luis cease.’”
A girl who recognized herself Tuesday as Zoila, Lopez’s sister, refused to speak in addition to tearful replies of “sure” when requested whether or not her slain sibling was a great girl, and whether or not she was hurting.
One other girl who confirmed up on the constructing mentioned in Spanish that Lopez was initially from the Dominican Republic.
Marquez’s expenses got here after he was initially delivered to Lincoln Medical Heart for a 24-hour psychiatric maintain, in accordance with the sources.
