Post date: Oct 26, 2012 9:9:32 PM
Police say they're waiting to interview a New York nanny who is suspected of having stabbed two Manhattan children to death. The nanny is in critical condition in aManhattan hospital after slicing her wrists and neck in a suicide attempt, after being discovered by the children's mother.
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (OCTOBER 25, 2012) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (NBC) - New York police on Friday (October 26) are hoping to interview the critically wounded nanny suspected of stabbing to death two children of a CNBC television executive in the family's luxury Manhattan apartment, a police official said.
The New York Police Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the nanny, identified as YoSelyn Ortega, remains sedated in critical condition at a Manhattan hospital. Ortega, aged 50, who police say cut her own throat, has not been charged because police have not been able to interview her.The official said Ortega remains the prime suspect in the stabbing death of two children,Leo, aged 2, and Lulu, aged 6.
Police hoped to interview the nanny later on Friday, the official said.
The children's mother, Marina Krim, discovered the bodies of the little boy and girl at about 5:30 p.m. EDT (2130 GMT) Thursday (October 25) in their apartment less than a block from Central Park on Manhattan's affluent Upper West Side, police said.
The children suffered "multiple stab wounds" and were pronounced dead after being rushed to a nearby hospital.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said that according to the latest information, Ortega slit her wrist and stabbed her own neck after the children's mother arrived home to discover the crime scene.
"The children were found in the tub. They were clothed. We believe now that the nanny began to stab herself as the woman entered the room, entered the bathroom. We initially thought that that had already been done, but now information is coming out that she did it as the mother entered the bathroom," he told a media briefing on Friday.
"This investigation's really just beginning," Kelly finished.
The mother had returned home with a third child, three-year-old Nessie, after the girl's swimming lesson,
She saw that the apartment was dark and returned to the lobby to ask the doorman if the nanny and kids had gone out, he said. The doorman said no, and she returned to the apartment and made the grisly discovery, he said.
A neighbor heard the mother's screams and called 911, police said.
Kevin Krim, the children's father, had been en route home from a business trip at the time, and was met by police at the airport and notified of the tragedy, police said.
Krim is a senior vice president and general manager of CNBC Digital. He moved to CNBC in March from Bloomberg LLP, where he was global head of Bloomberg Digital. A graduate of Harvard University, Krim was also a former executive at Yahoo.
A CNBC spokesman released a statement Friday expressing the "sadness we all feel" for CNBC executive Kevin Krim and his wife. The couple's "unimaginable loss ... is without measure."
Residents who live in the same Harlem apartment as Ortega were shocked after hearing news of the incident.
"Normal and very nice person. A person who used to say 'Hi' and 'Bye' and 'God bless you,' 'Take care of yourself'. I think she was very religious," Ruben Rivas said about his neighbor.
Rivas' son, Romeo, described the atmosphere at the apartment as very dark and gloomy after word of the crime spread.
"It's like kind of gloomy, kind of sad. I haven't seen a lot of people. I guess they're keeping to themselves inside cause this is . . . not very expected. Nobody expected this to happen, like, anywhere surrounding me," explained Romeo Rivas.
"A lot of people in this building are very nice, and they're like of the higher age group. So they're retired, most of them stay in their homes. I didn't expect anything like that to happen," he added.