Victim’s Teen Daughter Found Mother’s Body While Getting Ready for School
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced that a Bronx man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing the mother of his children by fatally strangling her with a rubber ligature.
Bronx District Attorney Clark said, “The victim’s children were in the home when their mother was strangled to death by the defendant. They will have to face the trauma of this unimaginable horror for the rest of their lives.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Angel DeJesus, 46, was sentenced on April 2, 2024, to 25 years in prison and five years’ post release supervision by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Joseph McCormack. The defendant pleaded guilty to first-degree Manslaughter on February 7, 2024.
According to the investigation, on September 20, 2021, in the early hours of the morning, at the victim and defendant’s Melrose home at 390 East 158th Street, DeJesus strangled Belkis Lopez to death with a ligature. The defendant then left the home, leaving three children alone with their mother’s body in the apartment. The victim’s 14-year-old daughter woke up to get ready for school and found her mother’s body.
District Attorney Clark thanked NYPD Detective Arelis Collazo of the Bronx Homicide Squad, NYPD Detective John Caruso of the 40th Precinct and Detective Michael Fahy of the Bronx Warrants Squad for their work on the investigation.
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