Conn. man killed girlfriend over affair, drove physique to police: cops
A Connecticut man walked right into a police station and confirmed officers photographs of his bloodied girlfriend in his automobile outdoors – saying he killed her as a result of she had an affair, officers stated.
Pedro Grajalez, 52, introduced the ugly pictures on the entrance desk of the Hartford Police Division about 3:20 p.m. Sunday, Connecticut Insider reported.
He stated “he had simply stabbed his girlfriend, and that she was in a automobile parked in entrance of the police division,” police Lt. Aaron Boisvert stated in a press release.
Officers rushed to the car parking zone, the place they discovered 57-year-old Nilda Rivera, of New Britain, unresponsive with “a number of accidents.”
They tried lifesaving measures till paramedics rushed her to Saint Francis Hospital, the place she was pronounced useless, Boisvert stated.
Investigators stated she was stabbed greater than 25 occasions throughout her physique — together with her chest, head, face and arms – contained in the automobile after they have been in a car parking zone on Murphy Highway.
Rivera was sitting within the entrance seat and a knife was within the middle console.
Grajalez, who had been relationship Rivera since July 2022, lately came upon she was having an affair and had allegedly been planning to kill her for a number of days, NBC Connecticut reported.
He advised investigators he hid the knife in his pants pocket and drove her to a McDonald’s for a chunk, after which he drove her to the secluded lot and stabbed her.
He stated he waited for Rivera to die earlier than driving to the police division, in accordance with a warrant cited by the outlet.
Grajalez additionally despatched a photograph of the bloodied lady to her “new boyfriend,” in accordance with the warrant.
He has been charged with homicide and his bond was set at $3 million.
In the meantime, Rivera’s daughters have spoken out about their loss, saying that they had a wierd feeling about Grajalez since he started relationship their mom, a former nursing assistant.
“My mother was simply in search of love,” Daniella Valle told Fox 61. “She was a mom. She was a grandmother. She was a buddy.”
The opposite daughter, Yaitza Casanova, stated Grajalez “was very jealous. He would look in her cellphone and delete stuff and go on her social media and delete individuals.”
Their mother and Grajalez have been in an on-again, off-again relationship after assembly on social media, in accordance with the outlet.
“He talked about how he would by no means harm my mom. However that’s precisely what he did,” Valle stated. “I get up day by day simply hoping it’s a nightmare.”
Casanova added: “I hope that they do to him what he did to my mom and he suffers slowly.”