The monster who ambushed his estranged girlfriend in her Harlem house constructing and stabbed her as many as 50 instances claimed he was blackout drunk and might’t bear in mind, prosecutors stated Wednesday.
Luis Marquez, 41, was arraigned on homicide fees and ordered held with out bail within the vicious early Monday morning assault on Carmen Lopez, his on-again, off-again girlfriend of 5 years — as disturbing new particulars within the blood-curdling assault emerged, prosecutors stated.
Marquez allegedly stalked Lopez throughout her evening out with associates at an area membership, then lay in watch for greater than two hours within the stairwell of her West 129th Avenue house till she returned dwelling round 4 a.m., Manhattan Assistant District Lawyer Jonathan Junig stated in court docket.
“When the sufferer exited the elevator onto her flooring, [Marquez] lunged at her, pinned her to the bottom and repeatedly stabbed her in her abdomen, her throat and her chest,” Junig stated.
“Even because the sufferer laid immobile on the bottom coated in blood, [Marquez] continued to plunge the knife into her chest with each arms to make sure her demise.”
Lopez was heard repeatedly screaming, “No, Luis,” throughout the relentless assault.
Prosecutors stated the knife punctured each her liver and aorta.
Marquez allegedly returned dwelling to the Bronx and confessed to family members, and was arrested after an acquaintance took him to an area hospital for psychiatric remark, authorities stated.
“Throughout an interview post-Miranda [rights], [Marquez] claimed he was blackout drunk and had no reminiscence of what occurred,” Junig stated, including that the accused killer did determine himself on surveillance images and video from the scene of the ugly crime.
Police stated Lopez, 47, has 4 youngsters, together with two who have been asleep in her house simply steps away from the place she was left to die within the hallway. A upkeep employee later discovered her.
In court docket Wednesday, Marquez, nonetheless carrying the Hollister jacket he wore when he was arrested, remained expressionless as a Spanish-language interpreter translated the proceedings.
He and Lopez sometimes dated over the previous a number of years, with associates describing Marquez as insanely jealous and more and more livid she didn’t focus extra of her consideration on him.
His arrest shocked coworkers at RE Meat Market on Ogden Avenue, the place he had labored for practically six months — and had clocked out simply hours earlier than the slaying.
“I’ve a headache for the reason that day I discovered,” meat market proprietor Ramon Cedano informed The Put up. “Everyone is shocked, I’m telling you. He doesn’t discuss, nothing, nothing. It’s like I’d by no means hurt anyone and for me to do one thing like this and folks are available and say, ‘Ramon did this,’ it’s like all people is gonna be shocked. It’s the identical with him.
“You possibly can ask the entire neighborhood and so they’re gonna inform you a similar factor.”
Neighbors stated Marquez rented a room within the Bronx and by no means appeared to trigger bother, visiting an area barber store each Friday to have his head shaved.
“He’s by no means an issue. He’s very quiet. He’s closed-mouthed,” barber Santiago Torres stated. “I’m telling you, all people’s nonetheless in shock.”
Marquez is due again in court docket on Nov. 17 and faces a most jail sentence of 25 years to life if convicted.
