A killer is on the loose after running over his ex-wife with a car and then proceeding to hack her to death with a machete, police in New York City said.
The scorned man appeared at the 58-year-old victim’s house in the Bronx on Thursday morning, according to police. As the victim, identified as Noelia Mateo, was getting into her vehicle, the man slammed his car into hers, sending her flying. He then dragged her under her car, got into the vehicle, and then backed over her.
“There was a person underneath the car, and there’s a person behind that person trying to pull her out by the legs,” neighbor Victor DiChristina, 78, recalled. “He backed over her completely and then … he ran over her legs and whatnot.”
When the woman rolled out from under the car and onto the sidewalk, the suspect then repeatedly hacked at her with a machete.
“Next thing I see, the sucker’s there chopping away at her with a machete — and I mean a machete,” DiChristina said, adding that he called 911 as the incident unfolded. “I’m yelling and screaming trying to stop him.”
Mateo was rushed to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead. The suspect drove off in the victim’s car and is still on the run.
“It’s unbelievable,” DiChristina said. “I’m distressed very badly.”
