NYC father suspected of killing daughters, wife arrested in Texas
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The father suspected of stabbing his wife and two young girls to death inside their New York City apartment has been arrested in Texas.
The NYPD says 28-year-old Miguel Mejia-Ramos was captured early Tuesday morning at a vehicle roadblock in Shulenburg, Texas, between Houston and San Antonio.
Sources told the New York Post that Mejia-Ramos was traveling in a vehicle with a New York license plate and was trying to flee the country for Mexico, where he was born.
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Police say Mejia-Ramos is considered a suspect in the stabbings. They say he was arrested by U.S. Marshals and local police on a New York warrant. Charges are pending.
It wasn't immediately known if he had a lawyer.
The bodies of 1-year-old Yaslin Mejia and 2-year-old Daniela Mejia and their mother, 21-year-old Deisy Garcia, were discovered in a bedroom of their Queens apartment by family members on Sunday night. They had been stabbed multiple times in their chests.
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Police said Garcia called authorities to the apartment twice last year with domestic violence complaints against Mejia-Ramos, but he was not arrested.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.