BRONX MAN INDICTED FOR STABBING EX-GIRLFRIEND MULTIPLE TIMES

Defendant Allegedly Stabbed Victim In Front Of Her Two Children; Tried To Flee Country After Attack

  Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx man has been indicted for stabbing his ex-girlfriend multiple times. 

  District Attorney Clark said, “The defendant allegedly broke into the victim’s home and stabbed her in front of her two young children. Fortunately, responding police officers applied a tourniquet to stop massive bleeding and the victim survived. The defendant bought a plane ticket to the Dominican Republic in an effort to evade justice, but he was apprehended before he left the country at John F. Kennedy Airport.” 

 District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Wilson Rojas, 32, of 2505 Aqueduct Avenue, was indicted on Attempted Murder in the second-degree and first-degree Assault before Bronx Supreme Court Justice George Villegas. Remand was continued and the defendant is due back in court on October 3, 2018. 

  According to the investigation, on August 27, 2018, the defendant allegedly went to the home of Florimel Lora Santos, his former girlfriend, at 665 Allerton Avenue. The defendant allegedly kicked the door open and stabbed the victim multiple times with a kitchen knife in her arms and chest. Shortly after the attack, the defendant purchased a plane ticket and called the victim’s friends and family members from JFK airport and told them that he had killed Lora Santos. Police apprehended the defendant on the tarmac before he fled the country.

  According to the investigation, the incident happened in front of the victim’s two children. One of the children who was present during the attack is the biological child of the defendant. The victim was aided by four New York Police Department Police Officers who responded to the scene and applied a tourniquet before paramedics arrived. The multiple stabbings caused massive blood loss and the victim had to undergo multiple surgeries. She also sustained nerve damage on her left arm.

  District Attorney Clark thanked NYPD Officers Steve Yankowski, Justin Sokol, Tanya Acevedo and Steven D’Alisera from the 49th Precinct. She also thanked NYPD Detectives William Cadena and Robinson Martinez. 

An indictment is an accusatory instrument and not proof of a defendant’s guilt.