Nikki Secondino charged with murder in deadly stabbing of 61-year-old father Carlo Secondino in Brooklyn

A suspect is awaiting arraignment within the lethal stabbing of her father at their house in Brooklyn.

A memorial for Carlo Secondino now sits on the counter of Mike’s Diner in Bensonhurst, the place the 61-year-old had labored as a deliveryman.

“He was very well liked by many, many individuals,” neighbor Rose Contrera stated.

“He was the kind of man that if we had been having a nasty day, he would are available and make it higher,” former coworker Briana Pacheco stated.

Police discovered Secondino stabbed to loss of life in his house on seventeenth Avenue early Thursday morning. His youthful daughter, 19-year-old Liana, was rushed to a neighborhood hospital with severe stab wounds, and his older daughter, 22-year-old Nikki Secondino, was taken to the hospital with minor cuts.

“It is simply so unhappy to see that this occurred to him as a result of he did not deserve this, and he cried for assist so many occasions and no person ever did something,” Pacheco stated.

In accordance with police sources, Nikki initially claimed two intruders broke in by way of the window and stabbed the household, however cops had been suspicious of her account.

Sources inform us investigators confronted the older daughter concerning the holes in her story, together with that there was no person on surveillance video breaking in. That is after we’re informed the daughter confessed to stabbing each her father and sister.

“I do not suppose it was a shock to anybody,” Contrera stated.

Earlier than this occurred, police had been known as to the house for home disputes no less than 3 times.

“He would categorical his considerations together with her, and he would say that yeah, he did really feel like that she was a hazard to herself or to others,” Pacheco stated. “However no person would have ever thought that this might’ve come all the way down to this, what occurred.”

Nikki Secondino is now charged with homicide.

Police recovered each a hammer and knife from the scene however are nonetheless on the lookout for the motive.