The Dominican Rosanna Rodriguez He died last Saturday as a result of several stabbings at the hands of her husband during a domestic dispute at a residence in Middlesex County, Peth Amboy, New Jersey (United States).
The perpetrator, identified as Wellington Leonardo and also of origin Dominicanstabbed his partner multiple times in front of his four daughters, ages 13, 11 and 3, and his 11-month-old baby, early Saturday morning, three days before his 40th birthday.
Rodriguez was rushed to the hospital HMH Raritan Baywhere he died hours later.
- Leonardo was arrested and faces charges of first degree murder, illegal possession of a weaponpossession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and put at risk of minorsby exposing them to the fact.
“I can’t sleep”
The news chain Univision picked up the statements from a neighbor of the family and assured that since the day of the tragedy has not been able to sleep.
“I can hardly sleep,” he confessed. Magdalena Sherry after knowing that the mother Dominican was a victim of murder.
Sherry He explained that he heard Rodriguez crying that morning, but he did not think that she was in imminent danger of death. He said he thought that “perhaps one of the girls had become ill (sick) and their mother was crying.”
However, “then I heard the police “I was knocking down the wall. ‘Something’s wrong,’ I told my husband,” she said. Sherry still shaken.
Father didn’t know anything
Gerardo Rodriguez, Rosanna’s father, remembered her as a person peaceful and happy, while lamenting that a “theatrical, a scoundrel” had taken his life, despite the times he was asked to leave him and start a new life with his daughters, as he told Univision.
“She put up with him, because she loved him so much. And we advised her that he was no good, that he was a show-off, a scoundrel. And (she) always loved that man, so as not to separate him from his children, until it came to that,” said the man who assured that he always maintained his reservations about Wellington Leonardo.
“That girl was never angry, she never fought, she was always smiling, happy,” he said, “she never told us about the problems she had with him. We knew him.”
The remains of Rosana RodrÃguez will be displayed in the mortuaryGustav J. Novak Starting this Thursday and on Friday morning they will be transferred to the Alpine Cemeteryfor his final resting place.
