New York Daily News

Throat-slash vic loses fight

- BY ESHA RAY, TODD MAISEL and THOMAS TRACY

A BROOKLYN woman whose throat was slashed by her friend’s deranged ex-boyfriend has died, police said Wednesday.

Larysa Saad, 42, was taken off life support at Coney Island Hospital on Tuesday — 10 days after police say Ruslan Baimov ripped her throat open during a bloody attack in Seagate. Family members plan to donate Saad’s organs, police said.

Saad’s ex-husband wanted to keep her alive, hoping she would recover, her landlord Joseph Nikosevic said.

She was making tea in her friend’s apartment on Neptune Ave. when Baimov pushed in an air conditione­r and climbed through the open window just before midnight on Oct. 28, police said.

Saad’s friend had recently broken up with Baimov, 40, who lives in the same building on an upper floor.

“It’s so sad,” Nikosevic, 64, said. “You should never help anybody. You seen what happens? She lost her life.”

Baimov slit Saad’s throat and then stabbed and raped his ex-girlfriend — all while the woman’s 11-year-old daughter hid in a bedroom, authoritie­s said. He then allegedly held the two women hostage for hours, alternatin­g between kissing his wounded former paramour and threatenin­gtokillher.

Saad (photo) remained on the floor in a pool of her own blood, gurgling and gasping for air, her 42-year-old friend told the Daily News.

Baimov left the apartment about four hours after he broke in. Saad was rushed to Coney Island Hospital, where she was put on a respirator.

Baimov is charged with attempted murder and rape.

He was ordered held without bail following his arraignmen­t on Oct. 31.

The Brooklyn district attorney’s office will most likely increase the charges to murder at Baimov’s next court appearance, sources said.

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