“He had a knife in his hand”: a man murdered Colombian woman and her two children in the US.

A tragic case of domestic violence was recorded in the early hours of Thursday, January 30 in the United States. A man, identified as Napoleon Romero-Anduray31 years old, he murdered his ex -girlfriend and his two young children in Jersey City, New Jersey. According to the authorities, the man, after committing the crime, tried to take his life.

The victims were identified as Luisa Urbanoa 31 -year -old Colombian woman, who had arrived two years ago in the United States, and her two small children: Juan, 9 years old, and Diana, 5 years old.

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The crime occurred when the alleged murderer entered the apartment tower and attacked the family with a short -time weapon. The neighbors alerted about the fact after they heard shouts in the apartment where the victims resided around 12:15 am on Thursday, according to the Hudson County prosecutor’s office.

“The guy had a knife in his hand”

The apartment building administrator, Luis Turcos, entered the apartment and found the lifeless bodies of the woman and her two children, with wounds caused by a sharp weapon.

Turks said he decided to enter the cries that provided the property. “He went crazy and killed the two children and the mother,” the man told The New York Post. “I tried to help her already the two children, but when I opened the door, the guy had a knife in his hand and stabbed it.”

The administrator told that media that Romero-Anduray pounced on him with the knife when he opened the apartment door. “I didn’t see where the children were, but then (Romero-Anduray) came to me and ran out. I closed all the doors and called the police. I had to protect my daughter, my wife and my son,” he added.

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Turks also said that man already had a history of violence. “In the past, she (Luisa Urbano) had to call the police, and the police came, he went to jail, things like that. He always got angry,” he said.

Emilse Fuentes, another resident of the building, told The New York Post that he also witnessed the moments before the crime, because he saw the victim talking on the phone and shouting. “It was shortly before midnight. I was screaming and seemed very altered (Luisa). I thought I was talking on the phone with the firefighters, but there was no fire,” he said.

Fuentes also assured that he saw Romero-Anduray inside the building.

The aggressor was arrested

Jersey City Police, according to the official report, reached the crime scene on Thursday. Luisa Urbano was declared dead in the place, while her two children, Juan and Diana, were transferred to the Jersey City Medical Center, where they died because of the seriousness of the wounds.

Romero-Anduray, also injured by self-harm, was accused of three positions of first degree murder and two positions of possession of weapons, prosecutors in charge of the case said.

In an early Thursday publication in X, the mayor of Jersey City, Steven Fulop, described the murder as a “terrible triple homicide” and “horrible and sad news.”

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Who was Luisa Urbano?

Luisa Urbano had arrived two years ago in the United States. She and her children were in the country with an irregular immigration situation, but urban had the desire to leave the United States, said a neighbor who spoke with local press.

“Last week I was in the basement talking to her,” said the neighbor, in statements cited by The New York Post. “He said that he had arrived here two years ago from Colombia illegally and that now he wanted to return.” “She had come two years ago, then returned and brought the children. But I wasn’t happy here. He didn’t tell me why and I didn’t ask him. I told her that it is not easy to adapt here, you have to wait a few years.”

Urban was a native of Popayán, Cauca. From there, family and friends have joined to raise funds in order to repatriate the bodies of women and their children. Through Gofund Me, the victim’s aunt, who identified himself as Alejandra, asked for help to cover the high funeral costs and repatriation.

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“This tragedy has left an immense vacuum in our family. We are from Colombia and we need to take them back to our country, where their loved ones can say goodbye to them as they deserve,” Alejandra said in his message.

For his part, a friend of Urbano, identified as Nick Muñoz also asked for help through his X account even, called President Gustavo Petro. “His family is doing this collection since his expenses are too high,” he said.

The representative to the Chamber Jorge Bastidas asked support from the Chancellery. “I feel a lot of sadness for the murder of the Payanese Luisa Urbano along with her two children, in New Jersey, the US Help to bring them to Popayán so that they can rest in peace in their homeland, fired by those who loved them so much and who cry them without comfort today, “Bastidas wrote.