{"id":119872,"date":"2025-08-05T03:44:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T03:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/119872\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T03:44:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T03:44:21","slug":"nyc-fitness-trainer-jacob-zieben-hood-was-on-phone-with-dad-during-fight-with-estranged-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/119872\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC fitness trainer Jacob Zieben-Hood was on phone with dad during fight with estranged husband"},"content":{"rendered":"

As blood gushed from a gaping gash on his leg, a fitness trainer and social media influencer found dead in his Harlem apartment<\/a> was desperately calling his father to relay what was happening \u2014 even texting him a picture of what was likely the fatal knife wound.<\/p>\n

Victim Jacob Zieben-Hood told his worried dad that the attacker \u2014 his estranged, violent husband \u2014 was coming at him with a knife and would not let him out of the apartment, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n

The father even heard the husband shouting vile insults at his son.<\/p>\n

The new details about the horrific death of Jacob Zieben-Hood, 34,<\/a> are the highlight of court documents which also lay out the timeline of events.<\/p>\n

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Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n

A 34-year-old man was pronounced dead on scene after he was found stabbed multiple times in the legs inside a fourth-floor apartment on W. 138th St. in Manhattan on Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

What they show, according to prosecutors, is that court orders and police intervention weren\u2019t nearly enough to save the victim from a violent death in the Harlem home he once shared with his quick-tempered husband, a model.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe victim\u2019s father heard the defendant\u2019s voice in the background screaming at the victim and calling him derogatory names,\u201d an assistant Manhattan district attorney said in court Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Hours later, the victim \u201cwas slumped over on the floor covered in blood with gashes from his head and multiple stab wounds to the back of his leg, including a stabbing on the back of his calf that penetrated his muscle,\u201d the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n

Autopsy results will determine if the knife wounds that killed him were accidental, self-inflicted or the result of a homicide, officials said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the victim\u2019s estranged husband, Donald Zieben-Hood, 40, was held without bail following an arraignment on burglary, criminal contempt and weapon possession charges after defying an order of protection directing him to stay clear of the Harlem apartment where cops found his husband dead on a toilet after a bloody clash between the two men.<\/p>\n

According to a criminal complaint, Donald told cops that he and Jacob got into a fight<\/a> Thursday evening around 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

A short time after the fight began, Jacob sent a picture of the leg wound to his father. Donald, meanwhile, didn\u2019t make the 911 call until almost nine hours later, according to police.<\/p>\n

\"DonaldDonald Zieben-Hood walks the runway wearing ARI during the Seventh Annual Blue Jacket Fashion Show at Moonlight Studios on Feb. 1, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by JP Yim\/Getty Images for Blue Jacket Fashion Show)<\/p>\n

Cops said it was Donald who called police to the W. 138th St. apartment near Frederick Douglass Blvd. at 4 a.m. Friday, telling responding officers that Jacob had attacked him.<\/p>\n

Donald did not mention any of the victim\u2019s injuries, but said that he himself was \u201cgashed wide open\u201d and needed medical attention. He had three cuts to his arms that required stitches. The victim, meanwhile, was slumped over on the toilet, covered in blood, dead.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said an order of protection<\/a> had barred Donald from being in the apartment or in contact with Jacob after at least two violent attacks in the past six months. It was among Donald\u2019s first concerns when talking with authorities, police said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have an order of protection placed against me,\u201d Donald told a dispatcher during the 911 call. \u201cI\u2019m totally getting arrested, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

Police said they believe the leg wounds Jacob suffered cut an artery, and that the victim bled to death. Multiple knives were recovered from the apartment.<\/p>\n

The charges could be upgraded to murder, officials said.<\/p>\n

\"AA 34-year-old man was pronounced dead on scene after he was found stabbed multiple times in the legs inside a fourth-floor apartment on W. 138th St. in Manhattan on Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

According to court records, the Thursday night into Friday morning clash wasn\u2019t the first time Jacob had been attacked.<\/p>\n

There were nine domestic violence reports documenting Donald\u2019s pattern of violence against his husband, dating as far back as 2022, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

In March 2024, a neighbor called 911 after hearing the defendant and victim screaming.<\/p>\n

Just this year alone, Donald was arrested twice for two alleged attacks on Jacob.<\/p>\n

Donald was arrested earlier this year for two assaults against his husband in the Harlem apartment \u2014 one at 11:30 p.m. Feb. 26, and the other early the next day. He was accused of choking Jacob and then two hours later choking him again and hitting him in the face.<\/p>\n

Jacob almost lost consciousness in the earlier incident and suffered swelling, pain and cuts to his face in the second assault, prosecutors say.<\/p>\n

\"DonaldDonald Zieben-Hood walks the runway during the 8th Annual Blue Jacket Fashion Show in 2024 in New York City. (Photo by JP Yim\/Getty Images for Blue Jacket Fashion Show)<\/p>\n

Donald was hit with a slew of charges including assault, strangulation, harassment, criminal obstruction of breathing and contempt of court in that case and was freed on $20,000 bail.<\/p>\n

At about 7:05 p.m. on June 14, Donald allegedly confronted Jacob outside their Harlem home with a knife and said, \u201cI will attack you,\u201d according to a criminal complaint. He was charged with menacing and contempt of court and released on $5,000 bail. Donald is due back in court Aug. 28 for those cases.<\/p>\n

Michael Musto, a former Village Voice writer, described Donald as a slick go-getter who once worked at a Chelsea gay bar called Splash.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe basically came off nice and the opposite of obnoxious,\u201d Musto said. \u201cBut that was quite a few years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Originally Published: August 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM EDT<\/p>\n