Jayden Rivera, a 19-year-old teenager, confessed to the police that he had stabbed his father, his 5-year-old half-brother, and the child’s mother to death in an apartment in the Bronx (NYC) because he had heard “voices.”
The detainee was at home babysitting his little brother when the tragedy occurred. His lawyer told him Daily News that the young man suffers from “extreme mental health problems.” After learning of the tragedy experienced by his family and caused by his own relative, Miguel Rivera, the detainee’s grandfather, said “I want to die.”
Jonathan Rivera, 38, his son Kayden (5) and his partner Hanoi Peralta (33) were found dead Sunday morning in their home in the building located at 674 East 136th St., corner of Cypress Ave., Mott Haven neighborhood.
Before going to take care of the child, on Saturday Rivera He told his mother that he was hearing “voices” and believed that his eventual adult victims were going to kill him, according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny. His mother took him to the hospital and he was admitted to a psychiatric ward about four hours before the bodies were found.
Jayden Rivera confessed hours later to the triple homicide, saying that he had stabbed the boy, his father and stepmother. The adults were also beaten so badly with a pot that it was dented by the brutal attacks in his apartment, Police Chief Kenny said, as the suspect remained for a while yesterday. psychiatric ward suburbana en Westchester Medical Center.
“While being treated by medical personnel, (the suspect) made spontaneous statements that he had done something bad and killed someone,” Kenny recounted. “When he returned home he told his mother that he was hearing voices and that Rivera and Peralta were going to hurt him.”
Jayden Rivera had no prior arrests. He had recently dropped out of college and was working as a janitor, according to his grandfather.
“We are coordinating with Bellevue Hospital to arrange the appropriate mental health care Mr. Rivera needs,” attorney Nicholas Ramcharitar said in a statement. “We send our condolences to the family for this tragic event and look forward to conversations with the NYPD and the Bronx District Attorney’s Office.”
Domestic violence is common in New York City and surrounding areas, between relatives, roommates and partners, even with minor victims.
Every day in New York City, on average, about 747 incidents of domestic violence, including assaults, abuse, verbal abuse, and about 65 homicides annually.
This month Luis Collado confessed that he had shot and killed his wife and her son in a “fit of jealousy” in their apartment in Brooklyn (NYC). In October, a jealous Hispanic man killed his girlfriend and then took his own life, leaving an orphaned girl in Queens (NYC).
At the end of September a woman was stabbed to death by her brother in Brooklyn (NYC) and he himself called 911 to report the crime. Days earlier, a Latina mother, her daughter, and her dog were found dead in an apparent case of homicide-suicide at another home in Brooklyn. And a woman was stabbed to death by her boyfriend along with her children in an apartment in The Bronx (NYC).
At the end of August, a Hispanic man stabbed his partner and two babies to death, and then himself, inside the apartment he had assigned as “super” in a building in the Upper West Side they Manhattan (NYC).
If you are a victim or suspect that someone is being abused, especially if it is a minor or elderly:
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2023-11-29 19:02:00
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