‘I CUT UP MY GIRLFRIEND'
Sicko admits grisly B’klyn slay in 2014
His guilt got the better of him.
Cops have arrested a 34year-old man they say walked into a police precinct earlier this week and confessed to killing and dismembering his girlfriend in Brooklyn four years ago, officials said Friday.
Ricky Gonzalez entered the 1st Precinct in Lower Manhattan about 8:45 p.m. Tuesday and made the startling confession — he killed 58-year-old Maria Quinones on March 5, 2014, inside her Bushwick home.
He then hacked off her head, hands and feet and threw her remains out with the trash.
“He just walked into the precinct and said he had something he wanted to get off his chest,” a source said.
Quinones’ remains were never recovered, officials said. After a brief investigation, cops charged Gonzalez with murder and concealment of a corpse.
Gonzalez told investigators he and Quinones were arguing when he grabbed her from behind in the bathroom of her Wilson St. apartment and plunged a knife into her heart, according to court papers.
Quinones died on the bathroom floor. Gonzalez confessed to getting a “butcher knife and a blade sharpener” and said he “beheaded Maria Quinones, chopped off (her) hands and feet, and cut (her) torso into two pieces,” court papers say.
“He remembered sharpening his knife before chopping her up,” Brooklyn prosecutor Tziyonah Langsam said Thursday as Judge Edwin Novillo ordered Gonzalez held without bail. “He stopped to sharpen his knife midway through.”
Gonzalez put her remains in trash bags at the curb so they “would be disposed of during routine garbage collection of the area,” according to court papers.
Jorge Arteaga, 29, who works at a nonprofit, knew Quinones and said she and his mother were close.
“She was a wonderful person,” he said.
Quinones lived in the Bronx before moving to Bushwick. A couple years later, she was fired from her substance-abuse counselor job when she took time off for a doctor’s appointment, said Arteaga.
Soon after that, she began seeing Gonzalez — and her friends quickly saw the relationship was toxic.
“When they started dating and he started to come around more often, her demeanor changed,” Arteaga said. “He was always high. He would beat her, for money, mostly . ... My mom would tell her, ‘He’s not good for you.’
“She often had black and blue marks on her face, after meeting him,” Arteaga said.
Family reported Quinones missing in September 2014 — about six months after she vanished. They told police she was involved in drugs, depressed and suicidal.
When Quinones disappeared, Arteaga’s mom figured she’d just stopped talking with her because she was critical of the relationship.
“I’m not surprised because of the kind of person he was.” Arteaga said of Gonzalez.