Man Stabs Wife, Jumps To Death In Inwood Murder-Suicide: Police

INWOOD, NY — A man jumped to his death from his Inwood apartment Sunday night after stabbing his wife to death inside the home, police said.

Cops arrived at the apartment building on Sherman Avenue near West 207th Street shortly after 10:15 p.m. after receiving a call that a man had jumped out of his window, police said. When officers arrived, they found 72-year-old Campo Albuja-Montalvo lying on the pavement in front of the building, said police.

Officers then entered the man's sixth-floor apartment and found his wife, 78-year-old Francia Walsh, suffering multiple stab wounds on the living room sofa, police said. EMS pronounced both Albuja-Montalvo and Walsh dead at the scene.

The NYPD is investigating the deaths as a murder suicide, police sources told Patch. In addition to suffering wounds from the fall, Albuja-Montalvo had slash wounds on his wrists, police sources said.

Local State Assemblymemer Carmen De La Rosa, whose district office is located in the Sherman Avenue building, called the murder-suicide "tragic" in a statement released Monday.

"I want to extend my deepest condolences to the family of the victim and to our entire community as we come together to mourn this loss. As a member of the NYS Assembly Mental Health Committee we have been working to eradicate stigma around mental illness and ensure that our communities have the resources necessary so that suicide is never an option," De La Rosa said in a statement.

Neighbors told ABC7 News that the married couple had four daughters and also had grandchildren. A police spokesman said that the motive for the murder-suicide is still under investigation.