Police say a Staten Island man beat his wife to death with a baseball bat and then tried to hang himself early Sunday morning.
Police received a 911 call from one of the couple's teenaged children around 2:23 a.m. and arrived to the house on Beechwood Place in the Castleton Corners section. They found 42-year-old Jodi Surinaga unconscious and unresponsive with trauma to the head. EMS arrived and pronounced her dead at the scene.
Surinaga, the father of two, apparently tried to hang himself when EMS arrived and he was taken into custody.
The New York Post says Surinaga committed the assault after he found out his wife was cheating on him.
The Post said a neighbor told the paper the couple had been married 20 years and the family lived in the home for about 18 years.
The victim's parents live a few blocks away from the house and arrived after the incident. Jodi Surinaga's mother was so distraught she was taken away in an ambulance, according to the Post.
Police do not know how much the two teenage children witnessed and are still investigating the incident.
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The unofficial start of summer is being met with not-so-perfect beach weather. Many beach communities had been hoping for good weather this Memorial Day weekend following the destruction caused by superstorm Sandy.
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Connecticut is making $5 million available immediately to cities and towns to help reimburse them for school safety and security upgrades following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.
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Coney Island's famed New York Aquarium, devastated by Superstorm Sandy, will partially reopen Saturday, May 25, 2013. The Wildlife Conservation Society on Friday showed members of the media parts of
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The mastermind of a botched robbery that resulted in the death of an NYPD officer has been convicted of murder. Nelson Morales was also convicted Friday of burglary in the December 2011 incident that
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The National Park Service is ending unpaid leave for U.S. Park Police officers earlier than expected. National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis said the furloughs will end on June 3, after just
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A Bronx teacher says her language lesson was lost in translation when she was fired for calling a student "Negro" — though she claims she was simply using the Spanish word for the color "black".
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Actress Amanda Bynes was arrested by New York City police after investigating a report of her allegedly smoking marijuana in the lobby of her Midtown Manhattan building.
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Five people were injured when a van jumped a curb in downtown Brooklyn on Friday.
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Delta Air Lines is opening a $1.4 billion terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport, strengthening its hand in the battle for the lucrative New York travel market.
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