{"id":36958,"date":"2025-11-12T11:27:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T11:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/36958\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T11:27:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T11:27:37","slug":"ex-boyfriend-busted-for-stabbing-harlem-woman-50-times-in-ambush-claims-she-was-his-entire-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/36958\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-boyfriend busted for stabbing Harlem woman ’50 times’ in ambush, claims she was his ‘entire life’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The deranged ex-boyfriend accused in the vicious\u00a0ambush murder of his on-again, off-again girlfriend<\/a>\u00a0in a Harlem building was charged Tuesday \u2013 after whining to cops she had been his \u201centire life,\u201d\u00a0cops and sources said.<\/p>\n

Luis Marquez, 41, allegedly knifed mother-of-four Carmen Lopez, 47,\u00a0as many as \u201c50 times\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Monday when he attacked her inside her West 129th Street apartment building \u2013 where he heartlessly left her to die alone in the hallway\u00a0as her two kids slept inside, authorities and sources said.<\/p>\n

Marquez, of the Bronx, was apparently enraged with jealousy because the victim used him and didn\u2019t make him a \u201cpriority,\u201d the sources said.<\/p>\n

Carmen Lopez, 47, was stabbed as many as \u201c50 times\u201d Monday when Luis Marquez attacked her inside her West 129th Street apartment building in Harlem.<\/p>\n

He described Lopez\u00a0\u2014 whom he\u2019d dated on and off for about five years \u2014\u00a0as his \u201centire life\u201d to police while in custody,\u00a0though the two were no longer together at the time of the slaying, the sources added.<\/p>\n

Building porter Lyron Middleton happened to be cleaning the staircase when he stumbled upon Lopez covered in blood and called 911, he said Monday.<\/p>\n

Lopez was rushed to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, where she succumbed to her grave injuries, cops said.<\/p>\n

Marquez\u2019s charges came after he was initially brought to Lincoln Medical Center for a 24-hour psychiatric hold. Stephen Yang for the New York Post<\/p>\n

Marquez being ushered by officials into a car outside the NYPD 26th precinct in Harlem. Stephen Yang for the New York Post<\/p>\n

Surveillance footage \u2013 which Middleton couldn\u2019t bear to watch but only listened to the audio \u2013 captured the moment the attacker ambushed Lopez after apparently waiting\u00a0outside the elevator\u00a0for two hours, sources and the porter said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cShe was yelling out someone\u2019s name as it was happening,\u201d Middleton said of the footage. \u201cThey say, \u2018Luis, Luis, Luis. Luis stop, Luis stop.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The kids, 10 and 18, were sleeping inside while their mom was brutally attacked, the sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Marquez, meanwhile, went to his home and rambled to his family repeating over and over that he had killed her, according to the sources. His relatives took the disturbed slasher to a local hospital, which is where police first took him into custody, sources said.<\/p>\n

At the victim\u2019s home Tuesday a woman who identified herself Tuesday as Zoila, Lopez\u2019s sister, refused to talk besides tearful replies of \u201cyes\u201d when asked whether her slain sibling was a good woman, and whether she was hurting.<\/p>\n

Surveillance footage captured the moment the Marquez ambushed Lopez after apparently waiting on the steps for two hours. Robert Mecea<\/p>\n

Another woman who showed up at the building said in Spanish that Lopez was originally from the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n

A building superintendent told reporters Monday that Lopez had four kids, two who live with her and two who are older and live in New Jersey.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know how did this happen, because they are not a problem person, any one of them. They are nice [people], like our family,\u201d the worker said.<\/p>\n

Marquez\u2019s charges came after he was initially brought by authorities to Lincoln Medical Center for a 24-hour psychiatric hold, according to the sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The deranged ex-boyfriend accused in the vicious\u00a0ambush murder of his on-again, off-again girlfriend\u00a0in a Harlem building was charged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,303,3290,469,1027,75,57,9,24,63,2442,129,131,130,58],"class_list":["post-36958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-crime","tag-domestic-violence","tag-harlem","tag-homicide","tag-manhattan","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-stabbings","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36958","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=36958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}