A belligerent boyfriend who allegedly hacked his girlfriend to death and also knife her son inside their Bronx apartment was nabbed by cops on Saturday, police said.
Juan Rivas, 45, was arrested and charged with murder, manslaughter, possession of a weapon, and attempted murder for the death of his girlfriend, Yesenia Hall, 42, who was found stabbed to death, police said.
Hall was repeatedly stabbed in the neck and torso and her 16-year-old son was stabbed in the neck and back with a knife sometime around 6:30 a.m. in their apartment on Sherman Avenue in the Highbridge neighborhood of the Bronx, according to police.
Neighbors who overheard the horrifying scene said Hall begged her killer to “Stop! Stop!” during the attack.
The maniac who allegedly carried out the bloodbath changed his clothes and fled, authorities said
Rivas was arrested later on Saturday at 2:23 p.m., police said.