A woman was found dead with her throat slit in a grisly scene in Bay Ridge, according to police and her devastated family.<\/p>\n
Maria Santos Flores was found with a cut to her neck at her home on 85th Street near 4th Avenue, according to cops.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The victim\u2019s 17-year-old son, and her sister, Angelica Flores, made the gruesome discovery.<\/p>\n
Family members mourned outside the murdered woman\u2019s home as police investigated her death Saturday. Kyle Mazza<\/p>\n
\u201cI came to visit her and found her like this,\u201d the heartbroken sister told The Post, as she stood outside with other family members as the group of relatives wept and hugged. \u201cShe had just come home from work.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another sister, Daisy Flores, said the family was from El Salvador.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe liked to help people and she took care of her family,\u201d she said, while crying. \u201cWe don\u2019t understand what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
The victim worked at a sports bar and had returned home in the morning, her husband said. Kyle Mazza<\/p>\n
The victim, 36, was a bartender and worked nights at Huatulco Sports Bar in Sunset Park, the family said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe police aren\u2019t telling us what happened yet,\u201d her husband Antonio Hernandez said. \u201cWe are waiting. We don\u2019t know anything. There is a suspicion that someone followed her home from work.\u201d<\/p>\n
The couple has been married for three years. Their two children, 3 and 17, were home at the time of the crime, he said.<\/p>\n
Investigators were still working on a motive for the disturbing crime. Kyle Mazza<\/p>\n
A bloody tissue found outside the home was marked as evidence by investigators. Kyle Mazza<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I took the car this morning to go to work, she hadn\u2019t arrived yet,\u201d he said, explaining that he went to work at 7:30 a.m. <\/p>\n
NYPD officers placed yellow evidence markers on items on the sidewalk outside, including one that appeared to be a bloody tissue. Cops also carried evidence bags from the home to an NYPD truck.<\/p>\n
The murder marks the first in the NYPD\u2019s 68th Precinct so far this year, according to the department\u2019s crime data. The precinct serves the southwestern portion of Brooklyn, and includes Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights.<\/p>\n
The city has seen a 23% drop in murders so far this year, to 111 from 144 at this point in 2025, the data show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman was found dead with her throat slit in a grisly scene in Bay Ridge, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":881663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5308,5248,27813,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,82991,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-881662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-bay-ridge","tag-metro","tag-murders","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-slashings","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116785408011399177","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881662","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=881662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}