A Manhattan man accused of fatally stabbing his aged spouse was arrested after a cellphone name to his niece.
Robert Miller
A Manhattan man accused of fatally stabbing his aged spouse was caught after phoning his niece and telling her he had finished “one thing unhealthy,” prosecutors stated Sunday.
Cops arrived on the scene at West 144th Road to seek out suspect Geraldo Balbuena, 68, holding a “massive wood-handled knife” — and his 79-year-old spouse’s physique mendacity in a pool of blood close by, court docket papers stated.
Officers had been delivered to the house after Balbuena’s niece phoned 911 telling an operator that her uncle instructed her he’d finished a “unhealthy” factor and that he was suicidal, the doc stated.
Arriving police noticed the alleged wife-killer by his fire-escape window standing within the house holding the knife, in accordance with the official grievance in opposition to him in Manhattan Prison Court docket.
Upon coming into the house, cops discovered Balbuena’s spouse, Lanilda Nuez, “mendacity unresponsive on the bed room ground in a pool of blood,” the court docket docs stated.
Lanilda was pronounced lifeless at St. Luke’s Hospital at 11:15 p.m. after 35 minutes of CPR, prosecutors stated — lower than an hour after police arrived on the scene.
Balbuena, 68, faces expenses of second-degree homicide and fourth-degree legal weapons possession.
Neighbors on Saturday instructed The Publish that the pair might have been feuding over a home they owned.
Balbuena had been ingesting and handing out beers to adults and sweet to kids on the day of the homicide and likewise spoke to neighbors about committing suicide.
Family and friends stated Lanilda, affectionately often known as “China,” was a breast-cancer survivor who usually held court docket from her stoop.
“She was everybody’s grandmother on this block. She was humorous. She was feisty, that’s why everybody cherished her. She was at all times making everybody snicker,” stated her granddaughter, Chanill Arashiro, 30.
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