NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — An ex-con is accused of fatally stabbing a woman during a family dispute inside the East Harlem apartment they shared while three children were present, police said Sunday.
Carmelo Castillo, 36, is charged with murder, manslaughter, assault, criminal possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child after he allegedly stabbed Marisol Duran in their shared East 112th Street apartment near Lexington Avenue early Saturday.
It remains unclear how Castillo was related to the victim.
Officers discovered Duran, who had been repeatedly stabbed, on the 14th floor of her apartment around 6:20 a.m. on Saturday.
She was rushed to NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan, where she was pronounced dead.
The three children present, ages 13, 12, and 4, were not physically hurt, the Daily News reported.
One neighbor told the paper that a couple with young boys moved into the apartment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"They argued a lot," one neighbor, Lisa Johnson, said. "I cried when I found out about it. They have children."
Sources told the Daily News that Castillo has a criminal history stretching back to 2007, with several drug-related busts and an arrest for assault in 2013.
He was sentenced to state prison twice: once for attempted assault in 2016 and again for weapon possession in 2019. Castillo was sentenced to two-and-a-half to five years in prison on the weapon charge and was released in 2021. Public records show he completed his parole.
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