The suspect wanted for pushing his estranged girlfriend and her infant daughter off their 15th-floor Bronx balcony, killing the woman, has been arrested, police said Thursday.
Angel Carrasco, 31, was nabbed Wednesday night and charged with murder, manslaughter, attempted murder, attempted manslaughter and assault for the horrific incident.
Details of his arrest were not immediately available, but police had said in a wanted poster that he should be considered “ARMED AND DANGEROUS”.
He allegedly killed Nathaly Ramirez, 23, but she somehow held onto and shielded her 8-month-old daughter as they plunged just enough that the infant survived the plunge.
The shocking slaying, the climax to an acrimonious relationship, happened 3:38 a.m. Tuesday shortly after Carrasco and Ramirez were heard arguing loudly in her Allerton apartment on Olinville Ave. near Allerton Ave.
“They were both on the terrace,” said Nancy Morales, 69, who lives on the 16th floor. “She was holding the baby. She told him to leave her alone. She was telling him, ‘Stop! You’re scaring the baby!’
“He said, ‘You want me to do it? You want me to do it?’”
Officers who raced to the scene after Ramirez and her daughter were thrown off the balcony rushed the baby to Jacobi Medical Center. The baby was in critical condition but her condition has since been upgraded to stable.
Medics rushed her mom to the same hospital but she could not be saved.
Ramirez went to Bronx Leadership Academy before studying psychology at Baruch College, according to her LinkedIn page. She also interned at Lishawn’s Consulting, a Brooklyn-based business management consulting company.
But she had an acrimonious relationship with Carrasco.
He was twice arrested in January following confrontations with Ramirez, police said
On Jan. 5, he was charged with misdemeanor assault for allegedly slapping Ramirez, police said.
A second arrest, three days later, has since been sealed but also resulted in his arrest. The charged he faced are not clear.
Morales recalled overhearing Ramirez on the phone in January confiding in someone about her troubled relationship.
“She wanted to get away from here — she wanted to get away from him,” Morales said. “She said, ‘I can’t take it anymore.’”