Bronx apartment where the murders occurred.Photo:Theodore Parisienne for NY Daily News via GettyA couple and their 5-year-old son were found dead inside a Bronx, N.Y., apartment complex on Sunday.New York police responded to the building on 674 E. 136th Street at approximately 6:40 a.m. on Nov. 26 and found the body of Jonathan Rivera, 37, in the first-floor hallway.He had been fatally stabbed, police said.Police then found Hanoi Peralta, 38, and the 5-year-old son she shared with Rivera, Kayden Rivera, dead inside their first-floor apartment. Both had been fatally stabbed.There were signs of forced entry on the door, police said.Neighbor Fernando Cruz toldFOX5that he heard “a scuffle or something going on in the hallway."“I know I heard that, and then I heard a woman screaming," Cruz said.scene cordoned off.Theodore Parisienne for NY Daily News via GettyThose who knew the victims described them as “nice.”“He was a cool little guy,” neighbor Larry Wesley toldPIX11 News, referencing Kayden Rivera. “He’d always say hello. The family seemed so nice, and everybody got along just right.”Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up forPEOPLE’s free True Crime newsletterfor breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases.“I would always see her every morning at 7, 7:30 when I came she would take her son to school, with her son every morning,” Deli owner Dahan Ali toldWABC. “Lovely boy, very lovely — saw him day before yesterday, he took a cookie, I said ‘Where is your father?’ He said, Outside.'“Rivera worked in maintenance at a local daycare, FOX5 reported.No suspects have been arrested.
Bronx apartment where the murders occurred.Photo:Theodore Parisienne for NY Daily News via Getty
Theodore Parisienne for NY Daily News via Getty
A couple and their 5-year-old son were found dead inside a Bronx, N.Y., apartment complex on Sunday.New York police responded to the building on 674 E. 136th Street at approximately 6:40 a.m. on Nov. 26 and found the body of Jonathan Rivera, 37, in the first-floor hallway.He had been fatally stabbed, police said.Police then found Hanoi Peralta, 38, and the 5-year-old son she shared with Rivera, Kayden Rivera, dead inside their first-floor apartment. Both had been fatally stabbed.There were signs of forced entry on the door, police said.Neighbor Fernando Cruz toldFOX5that he heard “a scuffle or something going on in the hallway."“I know I heard that, and then I heard a woman screaming,” Cruz said.scene cordoned off.Theodore Parisienne for NY Daily News via GettyThose who knew the victims described them as “nice.”“He was a cool little guy,” neighbor Larry Wesley toldPIX11 News, referencing Kayden Rivera. “He’d always say hello. The family seemed so nice, and everybody got along just right.”Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up forPEOPLE’s free True Crime newsletterfor breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases.“I would always see her every morning at 7, 7:30 when I came she would take her son to school, with her son every morning,” Deli owner Dahan Ali toldWABC. “Lovely boy, very lovely — saw him day before yesterday, he took a cookie, I said ‘Where is your father?’ He said, Outside.'“Rivera worked in maintenance at a local daycare, FOX5 reported.No suspects have been arrested.
A couple and their 5-year-old son were found dead inside a Bronx, N.Y., apartment complex on Sunday.
New York police responded to the building on 674 E. 136th Street at approximately 6:40 a.m. on Nov. 26 and found the body of Jonathan Rivera, 37, in the first-floor hallway.
He had been fatally stabbed, police said.
Police then found Hanoi Peralta, 38, and the 5-year-old son she shared with Rivera, Kayden Rivera, dead inside their first-floor apartment. Both had been fatally stabbed.
There were signs of forced entry on the door, police said.
Neighbor Fernando Cruz toldFOX5that he heard “a scuffle or something going on in the hallway.”
“I know I heard that, and then I heard a woman screaming,” Cruz said.
scene cordoned off.Theodore Parisienne for NY Daily News via Getty
Those who knew the victims described them as “nice.”
“He was a cool little guy,” neighbor Larry Wesley toldPIX11 News, referencing Kayden Rivera. “He’d always say hello. The family seemed so nice, and everybody got along just right.”
Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up forPEOPLE’s free True Crime newsletterfor breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases.
“I would always see her every morning at 7, 7:30 when I came she would take her son to school, with her son every morning,” Deli owner Dahan Ali toldWABC. “Lovely boy, very lovely — saw him day before yesterday, he took a cookie, I said ‘Where is your father?’ He said, Outside.'”
Rivera worked in maintenance at a local daycare, FOX5 reported.
No suspects have been arrested.
source: people.com
