A pregnant woman was brutally stabbed to death in the entranceway of her Queens, New York, apartment building early Sunday morning.
At this time, no arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.
Irigoyen’s neighbor Maurice Roman Zereoue says he witnessed the heinous crime.
“I seen her hands hanging on to a hallway for dear life.”
Jennifer Irigoyen.Jennifer Irigoyen/Facebook
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By the time he got there, Irigoyen was lying in a pool of her own blood. “She had a little dog with her, a pug, I think. Its feet were soaked in blood,” Zereoue told the paper.
“I asked, ‘Do you know who he was?’ And she kept nodding yes and waving her arm,” Zereoue toldThe Post. “She couldn’t speak.”
“I kept telling her, ‘Hang on, hang on, help is coming,” Zereoue told the newspaper.
The killer, who has not been identified, was allegedly seenfleeing the buildingfollowing the murder — leaving a trail of blood behind, CBS New York reported.
“I’m still shocked,” Irogoyen’s landlord Lisa Ramos told the outlet. “She was a sweetheart, sweetheart. Really, really nice girl.”
Jennifer Irigoyen.
Ramos explained Irigoyen had been living in the building alone for a little over a year at the time of her death, CBS New York reported.
Detectives are now viewing surveillance footage from the building in hopes of catching a glimpse of Irigoyen’s killer,The New York Postreported.
source: people.com
