Police say 31-year-old Officer Arianna Reyes-Gomez, who worked as an NYPD officer assigned to Transit in Brooklyn, was discovered dead with multiple stab wounds around 2:50 a.m.
Off-duty NYPD officer fatally stabbed, estranged husband in custody
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It happened inside an apartment on Grand Concourse, and authorities say Reyes-Gomez managed to call a relative before she died.
That relative alerted police.
Reyes-Gomez's 34-year-old husband Argenis Baez surrendered to a neighboring precinct soon after, and was charged with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon.
Estranged husband arrested after off-duty NYPd officer fatally stabbed
The two have a 3-year-old son, who was not at home at the time of the killing.
The couple was estranged, but there are no prior incidents of police response to a dispute between the two.
"It's sad," neighbor Moses Becerril said. "It's a couple, and there was kids involved from what we hear. They're parents. So sad."
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Neighbors said they heard arguing in the middle of the night, with the victim's first-floor apartment window facing the busy street.
"You have to be very careful these days, even with your own spouse," neighbor Elena Matos said.
Neighbors say they just moved in a month or two ago and kept to themselves, and that nothing out of the ordinary stood out.
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"I only heard just that, that they were just arguing," neighbor Frank Peralta said. "This was completely out of nowhere for me. Never expected that to pop up."
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