Neighbors gathered for a candlelight vigil to honor a 23-year-old woman one week after investigators said her ex-boyfriend Angel Carrasco pushed her and their 8-month-old infant off a 15th-floor balcony at a Bronx building.<\/p>\n
Nathaly Ramirez, known to loved ones as Michelle, was cradling the child as she fell, according to officials.<\/p>\n
Baby Nova is still fighting for her life in the hospital, officials said. <\/p>\n
Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson said Ramirez\u2019s mother and grandmother are at the hospital at the baby\u2019s bedside.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe take this personal,\u201d Gibson said. \u201cWhen you attack or harm one of us, you harm all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Community members and advocates said they hope the tragedy brings more awareness to domestic violence, including the importance of knowing the signs, seeking help and reporting suspected abuse.<\/p>\n
Stephanie McGraw, founder and CEO of WARM a, domestic violence organization, said neighbors should act when they hear signs of possible violence.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the things that we really want to stress to our people in our community, because the neighbors heard it but they didn\u2019t recognize it, they didn\u2019t say anything,\u201d McGraw said. \u201cThey just said, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s just another fight.\u2019 If you hear something, if you hear somebody yelling and screaming and glass breaking, you have to get involved.\u201d<\/p>\n
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.<\/p>\n
Advocates have been canvassing the community to let neighbors know resources are available to help victims.<\/p>\n
Several elected officials also attended the vigil and sent a message to abusers.<\/p>\n
\u201cMen, we gotta step it up,\u201d Council Member Kevin Riley said. \u201cAin\u2019t no friend of mine could be harming anybody, any child, any woman, and I could be calling them a friend. If you know somebody out there that is harming women, they are a sucker and they should not be a part of your life, and you should be calling it out completely.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carrasco faces several charges, including murder and attempted murder. <\/p>\n
Police sources told NY1 he was transported to the hospital and has still not been arraigned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neighbors gathered for a candlelight vigil to honor a 23-year-old woman one week after investigators said her ex-boyfriend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[25,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,1174,27,200],"class_list":["post-372606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-top-stories","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-olivia-leach","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372606","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=372606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}