Your Neighborhood — Your News® October 13, 2019
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STILL ON THE LOOSE
Cictor Mateo’s damaged vehicle. (insert)
Offi cers from the 45th Precinct responded
to the scene. Photos by Aracelis Batista
Ellsworth Avenue machete-wielding
murderer remains at large
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-yearold
Victor Mateo, the alleged killer
of his of one time spouse, 58-yearold
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,” DiChristina 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.
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