{"id":232464,"date":"2026-05-15T08:05:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/232464\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T08:05:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:05:38","slug":"parents-of-man-stabbed-to-death-in-bronx-were-unaware-of-girlfriend-accused-of-crime-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/232464\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents of man stabbed to death in Bronx were unaware of \u2018girlfriend\u2019 accused of crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

The parents of a man stabbed to death<\/a> amid a lover\u2019s quarrel in the Bronx told the Daily News they had no idea their son was seeing the woman now accused of his murder.<\/p>\n

Ramon Vasquez, 35, was arguing with his girlfriend<\/a> the night of March 28, when she drew a butterfly knife and stabbed him multiple times, including once in the chest, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know this woman,\u201d the victim\u2019s mother, Efigenia Barrera, 57, told The News, speaking in Spanish. \u201cThat\u2019s what kills me inside. We\u2019re asking ourselves, what happened?\u201d<\/p>\n

NYPD detectives visited the victim\u2019s parents at their Bronx apartment the next day, saying, \u201cWe\u2019re sorry. Your son was killed last night,\u201d according to Vasquez\u2019s father.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe came to visit over the weekend. He went out and then detectives showed up,\u201d Hodilio Vasquez, 60, said. \u201cWe have so many questions. We want to know why they killed him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vasquez lived in Queens and worked at a deli in Manhattan. He leaves behind three daughters by two women, neither of whom are the suspect.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy son was a good person who worked very hard and took care of his children,\u201d Hodilio Vasquez said.<\/p>\n

Dulce Dayana Hernandez Jimenez, 28, was arrested Tuesday at JFK Airport after a flight from Mexico, police said. She is charged with murder, manslaughter, assault and criminal possession of a weapon in Vasquez\u2019s death, and was ordered held without bail after pleading not guilty at her arraignment Wednesday in Bronx Criminal Court.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn argument between a couple escalated with deadly consequences,\u201d said Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark. \u201cThe defendant is accused of stabbing her boyfriend multiple times, causing his death. We will get justice for this victim\u2019s family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hernandez Jimenez was spotted slapping Vasquez on Webster Ave. near Parkside Place shortly before the stabbing. The pair both left the scene, but returned around 9:45 p.m., when the victim\u2019s girlfriend stabbed her lover to death, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was stabbed several times in the heart,\u201d the victim\u2019s father said.<\/p>\n

Police said the fatal confrontation happened next to a weed truck parked across from a gas station.<\/p>\n

Vasquez was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital<\/a> where he died.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe feel terrible about his death,\u201d his mom said. \u201cWe want justice for our son.\u201d<\/p>\n

The suspect fled the scene, but police said they recovered the knife she used to kill Vasquez.<\/p>\n

Hernandez Jimenez was charged in November in an unrelated misdemeanor assault case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The parents of a man stabbed to death amid a lover\u2019s quarrel in the Bronx told the Daily…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,91212,91213,91211,9,24,63,91210,13923,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-232464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-dulce-dayana-hernandez-jimenez","tag-efigenia-barrera","tag-hodilio-vasquez","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-ramon-vasquez","tag-stabbed-to-death","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}