{"id":77142,"date":"2025-07-20T04:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T04:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/77142\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T04:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T04:42:11","slug":"deranged-nyc-father-kills-wife-stabs-2-year-old-then-tries-to-take-his-own-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/77142\/","title":{"rendered":"Deranged NYC father kills wife, stabs 2-year-old \u2014 then tries to take his own life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A deranged Queens man killed his wife and his 2-year-old girl with a kitchen knife before turning the weapon on himself, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>An unidentified 54-year-old man stabbed both the 41-year-old mother and the child in the neck and chest multiple times before thrusting the knife in his own chest at their Ridgewood home on Saturday, according to sources and the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s shocking, you know, that it happens right next door to you,\u201d said a neighbor in the quiet, working-class area, who gave his name as Andres.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49707602;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36587502\" width=\"883\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/male-female-3-year-old-108442422.jpg\" alt=\"Police officers at the scene of a Queens murder-suicide.\" class=\"wp-image-36587502\"  \/>A deranged Queens man killed his wife and stabbed his 2-year-old girl with a kitchen knife before turning the weapon on himself, according to authorities. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess, you don\u2019t know who your neighbors are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old woman was taken to Elmhurst Hospital where she was later pronounced dead, the NYPD said.<\/p>\n<p>The 2-year-old girl was taken in critical condition to Wykoff Heights Medical Center where she was pronounced dead Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49707602;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36587503\" width=\"883\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/male-female-3-year-old-108442368.jpg\" alt=\"Police officers at the scene of a Queens murder-suicide.\" class=\"wp-image-36587503\"  \/>The murder took place in the Ridgewood section of Queens. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n<p>Cops said the 54-year-old man was also taken to Elmhurst Hospital where he is in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>A kitchen knife was recovered at the scene, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p>Another neighbor who shared a wall with the family said they heard no arguments from the now bloodstained apartment during the day Saturday \u2014 and in fact heard the twisted father jollily singing in the shower.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was, today, in the morning, I take a shower and this guy, he was f\u2013king taking a shower and singing, like nothing happen, like a normal day,\u201d the neighbor who wished to remain unidentified told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike he singing, he starting a normal day. Singing a happy song,\u201d the neighbor recounted in disbelief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t hear the fights, you don\u2019t hear nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A deranged Queens man killed his wife and his 2-year-old girl with a kitchen knife before turning the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5248,32550,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,4413,34621,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-77142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-murder-suicide","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-queens","18":"tag-ridgewood","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-us-news","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114883732899699097","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}