Queens dad, an MTA driver, told kids to 'keep your seatbelt on' before running down wife with SUV, then stabbing her: prosecutors - New York Daily News

A deranged Queens dad, successful the moments earlier slamming the accelerator to tally down his estranged wife, delivered a chilling messages to his 3 sons: “Keep your spot loop on,” prosecutors alleged Wednesday.

The boys past watched successful fearfulness from their seats wrong the speeding SUV arsenic their begetter Stephen Giraldo, an MTA autobus driver, plowed into his helpless woman earlier jumping from the Ford Explorer to stab her aft the illness of a troubled 13-year matrimony described by the unfortunate arsenic “toxic,” authorities said.

“I deed my wife, apprehension me,” the fishy told constabulary successful an admittance caught connected assemblage camera footage, according to prosecutors. Minutes earlier, the 36-year-old Giraldo had dialed 911 to confess “I deliberation I killed my wife,” prosecutors said astatine a Queens Criminal Court arraignment wherever the accused slayer was ordered held without bail.

Victim Sophia Giraldo was near successful a vegetative authorities and whitethorn not past aft her hubby loaded their kids into the car and laic successful hold for her to look connected the acheronian thoroughfare extracurricular her Flushing location astatine 5:20 a.m. Tuesday, officials said.

“The brutality of the attack, and the information that it was committed successful afloat presumption of the victim’s 3 young children, stirs heartbreak and outrage successful each of us,” said Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz.

Prior to the pre-planned assault, the hubby was caught connected video moving a trash container impeding his way earlier slamming into Sophia Giraldo arsenic she was headed toward the achromatic Ford Explorer. The interaction sent her sailing implicit a adjacent obstruction earlier the fishy climbed implicit his oldest lad with the weapon successful his manus to proceed the attack, said Assistant District Attorney Audra Beerman.

The accused attacker had lured Sophia Giraldo from her location to prime up the youths and drove into her arsenic she crossed the thoroughfare to spot her sons, said Beerman.

The wife, a home unit survivor, was warring for her beingness Wednesday aft the wild aboriginal Tuesday greeting attack witnessed by the couple’s kids extracurricular her Flushing home. Sophia had filed for divorcement lone 4 months earlier.

A transgression ailment recounted the spot loop instructions delivered to the boys, aged 11, 9, and 6, with the horrific details provided by the suspect’s eldest son. A weapon was recovered astir 15 feet from the conveyance and constabulary recovered the unfortunate covered successful blood, officials said.

The oldest lad watched from the beforehand seat, with his siblings sitting successful the backmost of the vehicle, said the prosecutor. The suspect took the 3 kids retired of conveyance earlier dialing 911, said Beerman, and the car skidded to a halt connected its broadside aft moving down the victim.

The 41-year-old Sophia, who hosted a podcast connected home unit wherever she shared details of her troubled marriage, remained successful captious information astatine New York-Presbyterian Hospital Queens 1 time aft the attack.

According to the complaint, the unfortunate was stabbed successful the thorax and suffered a breached femur, a breached fibula, a punctured liver, a limb laceration and terrible neurological harm during the savage attack.

Sophia Giraldo

Giraldo, successful a achromatic Tyvek suit and stubble connected his bald head, appeared astatine a Queens tribunal proceeding wherever defence lawyer Mary Beth Anderson said her lawsuit had nary anterior arrests earlier asking for the suspect’s placement nether termination ticker and protective custody.

Judge Scott Dunn issued a afloat no-contact bid of extortion for the hospitalized woman and the children.

The unfortunate described herself successful an Instagram bio arsenic a subsister of home unit and hosted the “Unfiltered and Free” podcast wherever she shared tales of what she called her toxic and abusive marriage. The mates was joined successful 2009 but the caller bride soon realized the mates had problems, she recounted successful an occurrence conscionable 2 months ago.

The unfortunate yet filed for divorcement earlier this year, tribunal papers show, and a Facebook station indicated she and the 3 boys had moved into a home unit structure successful 2019.

Stephen Giraldo is walked from the NYPD 109th Precinct presumption location successful Flushing, Queens, New York City connected Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. (Gardiner Anderson/for New York Daily News)

“I spent a agelong clip successful the heavy of affectional unrest, a batch of toxicity, a batch of abuse,” she recalled successful 1 episode. “One of the things I thought was ‘Am I consenting to fto my children turn up successful toxicity conscionable to person a antheral successful the home?’”

Stephen Giraldo was arrested Tuesday and charged with attempted murder, assault, transgression possession of a weapon, reckless endangerment and endangering the payment of a child.

Officers are seen astatine the country of car flipped implicit successful the beforehand gait of a location located astatine Parsons Blvd and Franklin Avenue successful Flushing connected Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/for New York Daily News)

The fishy was suspended without wage from his occupation arsenic an MTA autobus operator pending an investigation, authorities said.