‘SO MUCH BLOOD’
Neighbors describe horrific scene as Bronx mom is stabbed to death
Fighting back tears, a neighbor on Monday recalled watching a mom get stabbed to death inside their Bronx apartment building.
“There was so much blood,” the witness said, recalling the last moments of 29year-old Mercy Capacette’s life.
Capacette was attacked by her bonkers boyfriend inside her apartment fifth-floor apartment on Ellis Ave. near the Cross Bronx Expressway in Parkchester about 7:35 p.m on Sunday, according to neighbors and police.
She ran bleeding out of the apartment screaming for help, neighbors said. Her boyfriend, parolee Jeancarlos Jiminez, allegedly caught up with her on the floor below, where the gruesome attack continued.
“I saw when he stabbed her,” said a neighbor on the fourth floor who declined to give his name. “Someone said to turn her over, but I could tell she wasn’t breathing. She was already gone. He was just stabbing and stabbing.”
“He must have been on something,” the distraught neighbor added. “I’m not doing too good.”
The witness alleged Jimenez was a known troublemaker, arguing “with other people in the building, smoking dust [PCP].”
Capacette was taken to Jacobi Medical Center but could not be saved.
She was a health care worker involved in dialysis treatment, friends said.
The building’s lobby and hallways on the fourth floor and below all remained splattered with the victim’s blood Monday.
“I started screaming, crying,” said neighbor Evelyn Rosario. “I haven’t slept. I couldn’t even make it to work today.”
The couple just started dating four months ago, Rosario said.
Twenty minutes before he allegedly killed Capacette, Jimenez attacked his 60-yearold father and 34-year-old brother inside the family’s home on Gleason Ave. near Olmstead Ave., half a mile from Capacette’s home, according to police. Both men, stabbed multiple times, were recovering Monday at Jacobi.
Gleason Ave. next-door neighbor Manuel Cardenas, 47, heard a woman scream, “My husband and son are dead!” and saw the attacker walk out, shirtless and covered with blood. “He was walking down the street like nothing happened,” Cardenas said. “The mother was yelling, ‘Help me, help me, please help me!’ I went into the house, the dad was laying on the floor, bleeding. His whole face and body was all blood.
Cardenas added, “There was blood everywhere, on the walls, on the floor. The other kid was in the back of the hall, on the floor, also covered in blood. The chairs were everywhere, like there was a big fight. I ran into my house and called 911.”
Capacette’s death weighed heavily on Cardenas, who wondered if he could have stopped Jimenez. “If I had known, I could have grabbed him. He was walking down the street like nothing even happened,” he said.
Cops were working to establish a motive for the attacks. The suspect, who was found nearby by cops on patrol, was taken for a psychiatric observation.
He faces charges of murder, assault, weapon possession and reckless endangerment.
Jimenez, who was convicted of robbery and reckless endangerment in 2013 and sentenced to 4½-to-nine years behind bars, was paroled in August 2017.
Capacette was devoted to her 8-year-old son, friends said.
“Her kid was her pride and joy,” said neighbor Efrain Hernandez, 63.
“She was very nice. Her dream was her son.”
Jimenez is not the boy’s father, neighbors said. The boy was with his dad, who has custody on weekends, when she was attacked.