Ángel DeJesús (46) was sentenced after pleading guilty to strangling his girlfriend Belkis López, with whom he had two girls, in their home in The Bronx (NYC).
López was 35 years old when she was strangled with an elastic band for exercise in 2021. “The victim’s daughters were in the house when the accused strangled his mother. They will have to face the trauma of this unimaginable horror for the rest of their lives,” Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark commented Thursday.
“She was an angel, I swear, an angel,” he said yesterday to Daily News the victim’s father, Arismendy López. “It’s been three years since he died and I’m still crying.”
Family of a Bronx mom strangled by a rubber workout band in 2021 are speaking out for the first time after her boyfriend was sentenced to 25 years this week for the vicious killing.
“She was an angel, I swear, an angel.”https://t.co/spx0ANcVLW
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) April 4, 2024
“It’s been three years since he died and I’m still crying.”
Arismendy López – Father of the homicide victim
The woman was found dead by her oldest daughter, who was 14 years old at the time, in her apartment on E. 158th St. near Melrose on the morning of September 20, 2021, when the youngest daughter woke up to go to school.
DeJesus was in the home when the teenager last saw her mother alive around 1 a.m. that day, but she was gone when she was found dead, police sources said. Others two girls, then 3 and 5 years old, daughters of the accused, were in the housebut they were unharmed.
DeJesus was on the run for three months after killing Lopez and was captured in December 2021 in Brooklynsaid the NYPD. He pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter on February 7.
Neighbors reported that DeJesus had knocked on their doors three days before the homicide and made strange accusations about the victim, even calling her a “racist.” Patriarch López, 69, said that Her daughter had stopped wanting to live with the man who ended up killing her.
Previously, in April 2017, the police had submitted a report of domestic harassment incident after Lopez told officers that her boyfriend had threatened her.
DeJesus’ prison sentence, handed down Wednesday, didn’t give the victim’s father much comfort: “Let me tell you, [aunque] They give him 25 years, “My daughter is not coming back.”
Domestic violence is common in New York City and surrounding areas, between relatives, roommates and partners, even with minor victims. Every day in NYC, an average of about 747 incidents of domestic violence -including assaults, abuses, verbal abuse- and about 65 homicides annually.
Last Saturday, an immigrant was the fatal victim of her boyfriend and Irish countryman, who has been accused of stabbing her in the bar where she worked as a waitress in Queens (NYC).
In another similar case, the next day, on Easter Sunday, an elderly woman confessed that she had fatally stabbed her “long-time boyfriend” in the house they shared outside of Atlantic City, New Jersey.
In December, a man was arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing his partner inside the apartment where they lived in Brooklyn (NYC). Days later, a woman was charged on suspicion of killing her boyfriend, who was a “Section 8” (subsidized rent) resident in a luxury building in Brooklyn (NYC).
In November, a Hispanic man confessed that he had shot and killed his wife and her son in a “fit of jealousy” in their apartment in Brooklyn (NYC). At the end of October, a Hispanic man fatally shot his Irish girlfriend and then himself inside an apartment in Queens (NYC).
In August, Dominican Julio Aponte (65) was convicted in Manhattan Supreme Court after pleading guilty to beating his wife to death at a bus stop. At the time of the brutal homicide he was a traffic officer with the New York Police (NYPD).
In April 2023, Carmelo Mendoza pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing his wife Yaquelín Collado during an argument while the woman’s daughter watched helplessly in their Jackson Heights apartment, Queens (NYC) in 2020.
In February 2023, César Santana was accused of killing his ex-partner Luz Hernández, a Dominican kindergarten teacher in Jersey City (NJ) whose body was found in a shallow grave.
In September 2020, an Uber driver from Quisqueya was stabbed to death by her husband in Queens. The same fatal fate occurred in that county in August 2019, also Dominican Carmen Iris Santiago, attacked in the nail salon where she worked by her ex-convict husband, from whom she was separated from her.
Being in an abusive relationship is complicated. Love, children, family, community, money, security – leaving is never easier.
— Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence (@nycendgbv) April 11, 2022
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