‘Going to kill her’

Hub’s threat before slay, death leap

The Manhattan man who police sources say fatally stabbed his wife before jumping to his death from the apartment they’d shared for 40 years had been threatening to kill her in recent weeks, a friend said Monday.

Campo Elias Albuja-Montalvo, 72, and his wife, Francia Walsh (right), 78, had separated four years ago, but still shared the same Inwood apartment they’d lived in for four decades, the pal told The Post.

“Two weeks ago, he was saying he was going to kill her. We were all kind of nervous he would do something. And he did it,” said Ivelisse Almonte, 53.

“She wanted him out. It was over. But he wouldn’t accept it.”

On Sunday, cops responded to a 911 call at around 10:20 p.m. for a report of a man who jumped from the building on Sherman Avenue near West 207th Street.

Albuja-Montalvo was found dead, sprawled out on the pavement. Walsh was soon discovered dead on a sofa in their living room with multiple stab wounds to her torso.

Law-enforcement sources say Albuja-Montalvo stabbed his wife, then slit his wrists and jumped out a sixth-story window.

He bounced off a secondfloor awning and landed on the concrete, where cops found him, the sources said.

Almonte remembered Walsh as “a beautiful person. Very pleasant. Full of life. Well loved.”

Sources say the couple was known around the neighborhood for having a volatile relationship, although police say they had no history of domestic incidents with the NYPD.

One neighbor, who identified herself only as Anna said the couple “fought a lot.”

“He was depressed,” she said of Albuja-Montalvo. “We didn’t expect this to happen.”

Albuja-Montalvo did not leave a suicide note, according to police,