Ellsworth Avenue machete-wielding
murderer still remains on the loose
Cictor Mateo’s damaged vehicle. Photo by Aracelis Batista
New York City Department for the Aging
2019 Public Hearings
BRONX TIMES REPORTER, O BTR CTOBER 11-17, 2019 5
The New York City Department for the Aging is holding public hearings for the Annual
Plan Summary of 2020-2021 for services under the Older Americans Act, the New
York State Community Services for the Elderly and the Expanded In-Home Services
for the Elderly Programs. Hearings are scheduled for each borough as follows:
Borough /Date & Time Location
QUEENS
Wednesday, October 23
10 am - 12 pm
Sunnyside Senior Center
43-31 39th Street
Sunnyside, NY 11104
MANHATTAN
Friday, October 25
10 am - 12 pm
VISIONS at Selis Manor
135 W. 23rd Street
New York, NY 10011
BROOKLYN
Monday, October 28
10 am - 12 pm
Park Slope Center for Successful Aging
463A 7th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
BRONX
Tuesday, October 29
9:30 am - 11:30 am
Bronx House Weinberg
Neighborhood Senior Center
990 Pelham Parkway South
Bronx, NY 10461
STATEN ISLAND
Wednesday, November 13
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Staten Island University Hospital, North Campus
The Regina M. McGinn, M.D. Education Center
2nd Floor Auditorium
475 Seaview Avenue
Staten Island, NY 10305
To register, email testimony@aging.nyc.gov or send mail to NYC Department for
the Aging, c/o Lorraine Bailey at 2 Lafayette St. 7th Floor, New York, NY 10007.
BY ALEX MITCHELL
Police continue to track down a
man accused of driving over and then
fatally slashing his estranged wife
with a machete on the dead end potion
of Ellsworth Avenue in Throggs Neck
on Thursday, October 4.
The NYPD has put out a $2,500 reward
for information on 63-year-old
Victor Mateo, the alleged killer of his
of one time spouse, 58-year-old Noelia
Mateo of 529 Ellsworth Avenue.
The 911 calls came in at around 7
a.m., about the time when neighbors
were startled by the sound of a car
crash, and seeing Noelia hiding underneath
another car as Victor continued
to pursue her.
After Victor tried to hit his ex with
his own vehicle, she crawled under her
own car while its engine was running,
according to eyewitness and neighbor
Victor DiChristina.
Police sources say that Victor then
jumped into her car and repeatedly
drove it back and forth over Noelia at
least four times before he pulled a machete
on the defenseless woman as she
laid in the street.
“At fi rst it seemed like she was trying
to reach for something under her
car and he was helping her out,” Di-
Christina said, noting that he didn’t
witness the earlier car crash.
“Then it looked like he was just hitting
her I didn’t see the machete,” the
eyewitness continued.
When DiChristina saw Noelia being
struck by Victor he ran over from
his house to confront the attacker in
the street.
“I told him to stop, then I looked for
a stick to go over there and get him off
of her,” he said.
“But then I saw that he had a machete
and realized there wasn’t anything
that I could do but call the police,”
DiChristina recountered while
remaining on the scene of the crime.
“Then he drove away in her car,
just leaving the woman on the street,”
he explained.
There wasn’t much that could have
been done for Noelia by the time the
ambulance arrived. She was pronounced
dead shortly after arriving at
Jacobi Hospital later that morning.
DiChristina said he had only seen
Noelia around the neighborhood for
just over a year and never spoke personally
with her, mentioning that he
had never seen Victor prior to the killing.
Sources say that the previously
married couple had formerly lived in
Westchester.
The grisly crime scene in front of
533 Ellsworth Avenue still contained
Victor’s damaged gray Hyundai well
into the afternoon, which contained a
sealed letter on front side passenger’s
seat and a hammer on the fl oor.
The entire front of Victor’s car was
smashed when it slammed into a white
van parked on the street. The van only
received minimal damage, while the
Hyundai was essentially totaled.
Only the driver’s side airbag had deployed
in the car, indicating the probability
that the driver was alone in the
car at the time.
Police have not yet indicated a motive
in the murder and continue to
search for Victor Mateo as of the Bronx
Times Reporter’s press time. Noelia’s
car was found later that day on Logan
Avenue
Anyone with information on the
murder of Noelia Mateo is encouraged
to contact NYPD Crime Stoppers.
Offi cers from the 45th Precinct responded to the scene. Photo by Aracelis Batista
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