Police: Man Fatally Falls From 6th Floor Building, Wife Found Stabbed To Death In Apartment

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) - Police say a man fell or jumped to his death from a Manhattan apartment building Sunday night, leaving behind the body of his wife who was dead from multiple stab wounds.

Responders to a 911 call found 72-year-old Campo Elias Albuja-Montalvo lying on the pavement, unconscious and unresponsive, just before 10:30 p.m. Sunday night on Sherman Avenue in Inwood.

Once inside the sixth-floor apartment from where they believed the man fell, they found the man's wife, 78-year-old Francia Walsh, on a living room sofa with several stab wounds in her chest. According to the Associated Press, a knife was found at the scene.

Both individuals were pronounced dead at the scene.

The investigation is ongoing.

(© Copyright 2019 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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