Police investigate after a man, woman, and child was found dead inside of a Bronx apartment building on Nov. 26.
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Police brass said Tuesday that they have identified a person of interest in the grisly murder of a Bronx family Sunday.
NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny revealed on Tuesday the horrific details surrounding the barbaric slaying of 38-year-old Jonathan Rivera, 33-year-old Hanoi Peralta, and 5-year-old Kayden Rivera, adding that police believe a loved one committed the heinous crime.
Police found all three victims inside 674 East 136th St. at around 6:40 a.m. Sunday morning. The scene resembled something out of a horror movie.
Jonathan was discovered in the building’s first floor hallway, lying in a pool of blood with a stab wound to the chest, a slash mark to the head, and lacerations to his hands indicating that he attempted to fight off his attacker.
Inside a nearby apartment, officers located Peralta, who had suffered with 15 stab wounds to the back and seven wounds in the chest.
But their son suffered the worst fate, as Chief Kenny noted that 5-year-old Kayden “was disemboweled” on a bed, and had suffered numerous stab wounds.
Evidence recovered at the crime scene only seemed to indicate the depraved nature of the heinous triple homicide.
“At the scene we recovered a very small kitchen knife and a pot that was dented,” Chief Kenny noted, so it appears that after they were stabbed, the victims were then beaten with the pot to the point that it was dented.”
One day prior to the grizzly murders, Rivera and Peralta were spotted in Lower Manhattan at around 8 p.m. However, things apparently took a turn for the worse during the early hours of Nov. 26, when neighbors heard bone chilling yells.
“At 5 a.m. they hear someone screaming the Lord’s Prayer in Spanish in the hallway, and we have another neighbor at two o’clock in the morning state that they hear a male and female screaming,” Chief Kenny…
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