By The newspaper
Nov 28, 2023, 01:31 AM EST
“I want to die,” said Miguel Rivera, after his son, his grandson and the child’s mother were found stabbed to death in their home in The Bronx (NYC) and a relative was arrested as a suspect in the triple homicide.
Jonathan Rivera, 38, his son Kayden Rivera (5) and his partner Hanoi Peralta (33) were found dead Sunday morning in their home in the building located at 674 East 136th St., corner of Cypress Ave., neighborhood Mott Haven, and yesterday the police identified them.
“My son Jonathan is the best person in the world,” he told Daily News his dismayed father. He added that the person detained yesterday as a suspect was another son of Rivera and the boy’s half-brother. “Taking the life of his brother, his father… I don’t want to believe it,” he said, without giving the name of the arrested young man.
Taking the life of his brother, his father… I don’t want to believe it.”
Bronx man reeling with grief after son, 5-year-old grandson stabbed to death along with boy’s mother
“I want to die,” said Miguel Rivera, father of victim Jonathan Rivera. “My son Jonathan is the best person in the world.”https://t.co/xQYURP5DfU
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) November 27, 2023
Rivera was found semi-clothed with a deep cut on his chest around 6:40 a.m. Sunday, police said. The boy Kayden was found face up on an air mattress inside the apartment with numerous stab wounds. Peralta was face up in bed with multiple injuries. All three died at the scene.
The victim worked at a school in the Bronx doing maintenance and had an additional cleaning job in Hunts Point, according to his grieving father. “My son had two jobs to support his life. [de Peralta] and that of his son.”
In addition to Kayden, she had two daughters and another son. That unidentified eldest son was taken into police custody as a suspect. He asked for a lawyer immediately after being detained and made no statement about the murders, according to a police source. Those prosecuted are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.
“A psychopath must have done this,” said a friend of the murdered father, who only identified himself as Binky. “I heard that (the victims) were all cut up. Only a psychopath could have done this. He must have ran in, stabbed everyone and ran away.”
The causes and exact timing of the deaths are unclear. They were “Very good people. He used to see the lady every morning with her son when she was going to take him to school, he was a very sweet child and she saw the child’s father buying coffee every morning. I never saw them argue or fight with anyone, they were very respectful,” winemaker Dahan Ali said of the victims. In statements to NY1 News He said security video from his store captured Peralta shopping there on Saturday, hours before she was murdered.
Domestic violence is common in New York City and surrounding areas, between relatives, roommates and partners, even with minor victims.
Every day in New York City, on average, about 747 incidents of domestic violence are reported, including assaults, abuse, verbal abuse, and about 65 homicides annually.
This month Luis Collado confessed that he had shot and killed his wife and her son in a “fit of jealousy” in their apartment in Brooklyn (NYC). In October, a jealous Hispanic man killed his girlfriend and then took his own life, leaving an orphaned girl in Queens (NYC).
At the end of September, a woman was stabbed to death by her brother in Brooklyn (NYC) and he himself called 911 to report the crime. Days earlier, a Latina mother, her daughter, and her dog were found dead in an apparent case of homicide-suicide at another home in Brooklyn. And a woman was stabbed to death by her boyfriend along with her children in an apartment in the Bronx (NYC).
At the end of August, a Hispanic man stabbed his partner and two babies to death, and then himself, inside the apartment he had assigned as a “super” apartment in a building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan (NYC).