A ‘jealous’ boyfriend who is said to have confessed to killing his girlfriend in their New York apartment was upset with her because she stayed out overnight, according to police sources.
Angel Felix Rodriguez, 23, and his 21-year-old girlfriend, Indira Ramirez-Rivera, were said to have had a hot-and-cold relationship, sources told the New York Post.
‘They seemed lovable but then they argued and it was heated,’ said the couple’s 35-year-old neighbor, Smily Rodriguez.
The Bronx native told NYPD officers on Wednesday that he killed his girlfriend.
Police sources with the NYPD claim that 23-year-old Angel Felix Rodriguez was angry with his girlfriend for staying out overnight and decided to kill her as a result. The suspect’s Thursday arraignment is pictured
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Smily – who shares no relation to the 23-year-old alleged killer – said that when authorities arrived to the couple’s Bronx apartment on Wednesday, she knew things were bad.
‘I heard one EMT say: ‘It looked like the devil was in there,” she said.
Just before 6pm on Wednesday he walked in 46th Precinct in the Bronx and confessed to killing 21-year-old Indira Ramirez-Rivera
Police found Ramirez-Rivera with strangulation marks to her neck, blunt force trauma to her body, and vaginal cuts.
Rodriguez has not been charged with any sexual offenses.
‘He wanted her to suffer,’ Assistant District Attorney Kathryn Falasca said during a Thursday arraignment hearing, according to the New York Daily News.
Ramirez-Rivera was left on the couple’s bed for two days, authorities said.
‘He left her on the bed that they shared to die.’ Falasca added
It was also stated that the victim had just returned home from the Dominican Republic after going abroad to get plastic surgery.
Rodriguez arrived at the 46th Precinct around 6pm on Wednesday, and told officers that he killed his 21-year-old girlfriend.
He then gave officers permission to search his apartment at Nelson Avenue and Shakespeare Avenue in Morris Heights in the Bronx.
According to News 12, when authorities arrived to the couple’s home they found Ramirez-Rivera’s body in the bathroom.
‘They seemed lovable but then they argued and it was heated,’ said the couple’s 35-year-old neighbor, Smily Rodriguez.
Police observed the trauma to her neck, leading them to believe that she was strangled.
A medical examiner will conduct an autopsy to determine the cause cause of death.
Shortly after confessing to the crime, Rodriguez was escorted out of the precinct in handcuffs.
Rodriguez held his head down and covered his face with his hoodie as officers put him in the back of a patrol car.
Neighbors told the New York Daily News that Rodriguez ‘was very jealous,’ didn’t like the way Ramirez-Rivera dressed when she went out and was prone to violence.
Her friend, Andy Rodriguez told the newspaper that ‘she wanted to go back to her apartment and pack her stuff and leave him’.
‘I didn’t expect him to do anything like this,’ he said.
They both worked at bars in the Bronx, according to their neighbors.
Rodriguez has been charged with murder and manslaughter.
Attorney information for Rodriguez wasn’t immediately clear. The investigation is ongoing.
Shortly after confessing to the crime, Rodriguez was seen being escorted out of the precinct in handcuffs. Rodriguez held his head down and covered his face with his hoodie as officers put him in the back of a patrol car
The couple shared a basement apartment at Nelson Avenue and Shakespeare Avenue in Morris Heights in the Bronx (above)