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Two children, mother dead in Jersey City domestic violence incident, investigators say

Jersey City stabbing leaves mother, 2 children dead
Jersey City stabbing leaves mother, 2 children dead 00:25

JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Investigators say an act of domestic violence led to the stabbing deaths of a woman and her two young children whose bodies were found inside a New Jersey apartment. 

Napoleon Romero-Anduray, 31, was taken into custody and charged in the triple murder in Jersey City, the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office said Thursday.  

The deceased children were identified as 9-year-old Juan Martin Urbano and 5-year-old Diana Ramirez. Their mother, 31-year-old Luisa Urbano, was dead at the scene, police said.     

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Police and EMS responded overnight Wednesday to the building on Hutton Street in the Heights section and had the road closed off at both ends, from Liberty Avenue to JFK Boulevard. Inside, tenants said there was caution tape around the lobby and blood on the stairs. A white sheet also covered a broken window on the first floor.   

Jay Perine, who lives in the building, said he watched in horror as police arrested Romero-Anduray, who he said was Urbano's boyfriend. 

"He was just out of it. You could tell that he just didn't, he was just out of it. He wanted to hurt himself," Perine said. "It's terrible whenever there's kids are involved. That's rule number one right? Don't touch the babies. I don't know what the dispute was about, but all indications were they were a happy family." 

Perine said he wasn't aware of any problems before between Urbano and Romero-Anduray. 

"In the summertime they cooked out, there was music. He got up, worked everyday ... This was like a sudden event," he told CBS News New York. 

Mayor Steven Fulop said that "the male actor tried to stab himself," in a social media post referring to Romero-Anduray. He also said chaplains and social workers were available to support neighbors. 

Authorities did not immediately release information about Urbano's relationship to Romero-Anduray, or the children's. 

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