Campo Albuja-Montalvo stabbed wife Francia Albuja-Montalvo to death, jumped out 6th story window
Police are investigating the deaths of a married couple in Manhattan as a murder-suicide, identifying the couple as Campo Elias Albuja-Montalvo and his wife, Francia Walsh Albuja-Montalvo.
Officials spoke Monday, explaining that Campo, 72, stabbed Francis to deatn and then jumped out a window. Police responded to the 911 call around 10:20 p.m. Sunday for a report of a man who jumped from a building on Sherman Avenue near West 207th Street in Inwood.
According to witnesses at the scene, now confirmed in reports; Campo Elias Albuja-Montalvo, 72, slits his wrists before leaping out the sixth-story window, bouncing off the second-floor balcony and landed on the cement, where police found him.
Francis, 78, was found on a sofa in the living room of the couple’s sixth-floor apartment with multiple stab wounds to her torso. Witnesses on the scene, noted that the couple was known around the neighborhood as having a volatile relationship.
Both individuals were pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said they recovered a knife at the scene. Albuja-Montalvo did not leave a suicide note.
Authorities confirmed that the couple have adult children, but no one else was in the apartment when the bodies were found.
Police describe the investigation as ongoing.