Bayron Fajardo González pleaded guilty to having killed his girlfriend in front of his 9-year-old girl, in Riverhead (Long Island, NY).
Fajardo pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree murder in Suffolk County court after a grand jury indicted him for fatally stabbing Tania Fox (27) two years ago. He had been held without bail since his arrest, reported Dan’s Papers.
“This statement will not bring back the victim, nor will it erase the brutal acts her young daughter witnessed,” said Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney. “However, this defendant will now serve a lengthy prison sentence and his family and loved ones can rest a little easier.”
Prosecutors said that in the middle of an argument Fajardo (34), who is not the girl’s father, attacked the victim after she arrived at the couple’s residence on Ludlam Avenue shortly after 11 pm on 20 August
The victim and her daughter locked themselves in the girl’s room to avoid Fajardo, who went out and smashed a bedroom window, chasing the two up the stairs to a small attic, authorities said.
“If something happens to me, Bayron is guilty”
Tania Fox, stabbed victim
“If something happens to me, Bayron is guilty,” Fox told his cousin over the phone, according to the investigators. stigators. “Please take care of ”.
Fajardo then found the victim and stabbed her several times in the chest while her daughter was standing next to her. The girl escaped from the attic and called 911, as did a tenant at the residence, who heard Fox screaming in the background, authorities said. .
Responding officers found Fajardo coming down the stairs from the attic covered in the victim’s blood. He admitted that he stabbed Fox, prosecutors said. The victim was taken to Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead, where she was pronounced dead.
Fajardo faces between 11 years and life in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced on 27 April before Judge Anthony Senft. His attorney has not commented