On Sunday night, a Harlem man fatally stabbed his wife and then leaped out the window, falling eight stories to his death.
According to the New York Daily News, authorities discovered 69-year-old Francisco Ferreiras‘s body in a parking lot and went to his apartment to investigate. It was there that they found his wife, 53-year-old Bernarda, bleeding from several stab wounds to her chest. Although she was rushed to Harlem Hospital, she was unable to be saved.
According to a neighbor, Bernarda was trying to leave her husband, and the two had been fighting moments before the stabbing.
“They were arguing and then there was one loud scream from the woman. Then I heard what was the man’s body hit the ground,” the neighbor said. “It was a loud boom. I looked out the window and I knew he was dead.”