Marisol Ortiz and Alanche Del Orbe were found dead Sunday inside this New York City apartment building. (Google Maps)
The boyfriend police eyed in the brutal Bronx murder of a mother and her 14-year-old son killed himself after jumping in front of a Metro North train shortly after the killing, according to reports.
Marisol Ortiz and 14-year-old Alanche Delorbe were found bludgeoned to death in their home in the Belmont section of the Bronx at about 3:30 p.m. Sunday. Both had apparent head trauma. Authorities were working to determine if exercise weights were used in the killing.
The suspect was not immediately identified.
“I just heard the daughter screaming,” Iris Rosa, a neighbor in the Bronx borough apartment building, told the newspaper. “It was just ‘Ahhhhh!’ And then nothing.”
The boyfriend police eyed in the brutal Bronx murder of a mother and her 14-year-old son killed himself after jumping in front of a Metro North train shortly after the killing, according to reports.
They were pronounced dead at the scene.
Police say a family member called 911 after discovering the bodies.
The Associated Press contributed to this report
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