{"id":269057,"date":"2026-06-16T23:38:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/269057\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T23:38:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:38:36","slug":"news-12-bronx-it-is-a-miracle-she-survived-man-sentenced-for-stabbing-75-year-old-woman-inside-morris-heights-apartments-elevator-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/269057\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | It Is A Miracle She Survived Man Sentenced For Stabbing 75 Year Old Woman Inside Morris Heights Apartments Elevator In 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark says that a Bronx man was sentenced for stabbing a 75-year-old woman inside an elevator at her Morris Heights apartment building in 2024.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\"><a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/2024\/04\/01\/police-man-in-custody-after-stabbing-75-year-old-woman-in-the-head-in-fordham-heights\/6czilW6Xo1eMKGS0ycccPv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edwin Rios<\/a> will serve 15 years behind bars and five years post-release supervision for ambushing Zonona Ramos on Easter morning, leaving her with a punctured lung and permanent nerve damage.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Rios, 40, followed Ramos into the elevator at around 11:30 a.m., where he stabbed her repeatedly in the head and body, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD arrested Rios and charged him for trying to kill someone in a separate incident in 2013.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;For no reason, he viciously attacked a 75-year-old woman in an elevator of her building,\u201d Clark said. \u201cIt is a miracle she survived. She is, however, still dealing with physical and emotional trauma two years later.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 spoke with Ramos days after the brutal attack.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;He hit me everywhere, and when his knife fell to the floor I pushed it by mistake\u2026and then he picked it back up, and I thought he was going to kill me with that knife,&#8221; Ramos said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Paramedics rushed Ramos to the hospital, where she says she received 40 stitches on her hands alone, excluding those she needed on her face and head.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">She spent two months receiving treatment in a nursing facility after the attack, prosecutors say.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Rios pleaded guilty to attempted murder on June 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark says that a Bronx man was sentenced for stabbing a 75-year-old woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-269057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","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\/269057","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=269057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}