The suspect in a fatal Brooklyn slashing last month is believed to be hiding out in Mexico, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n
The NYPD and federal authorities have recently crossed over the Southern Border in their\u00a0search for Misal Cruz, who is wanted for the\u00a0June 20 murder\u00a0of Maria Santos Flores, 36. Mexican authorities have also joined in the manhunt. <\/p>\n
Santos Flores was found with a cut to her neck at her home on 85th Street, cops said. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are on\u00a0 the hunt, collaborating with federal and Mexican officials,\u201d a NYPD source said of the city detectives in Mexico.<\/p>\n
Santos Flores was found with her throat slashed inside her home on 85th Street near 4th Avenue in Bay Ridge, according to cops.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Santos Flores\u2019 17-year-old son and her sister, Angelica Flores, made the gruesome discovery.<\/p>\n
The NYPD put out a wanted poster for the suspect in the murder.<\/p>\n
Her 17-year-old son, and her sister found the victim at the home. 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
Santos Flores was a bartender and worked nights at Huatulco Sports Bar in Sunset Park, the family said.<\/p>\n
Her husband, Antonio Hernandez, said police believed someone had followed her home from work the night she was killed.<\/p>\n
The couple\u2019s two children, the son and a 3-year-old, were home at the time of the crime, he said.<\/p>\n
Police investigate the scene of a Bay Ridge fatal slashing on June 20. Kyle Mazza<\/p>\n
The murder was the first of two in the NYPD\u2019s 68th Precinct so far this year, according to the department\u2019s crime data. <\/p>\n
The precinct serves the southwestern portion of Brooklyn, and includes Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights.<\/p>\n
Additional reporting by Jennifer Bain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The suspect in a fatal Brooklyn slashing last month is believed to be hiding out in Mexico, The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":975004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,203843,5308,183551,5248,2222,27813,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-975003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-bartenders","tag-bay-ridge","tag-manhunts","tag-metro","tag-mexico","tag-murders","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","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\/117024192439798878","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975003","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=975003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/975004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}