Man allegedly stabbed fiancée to demise in Elizabeth house

A person was arrested after allegedly stabbing his fiancée to demise inside her New Jersey house, only a day after he requested her to marry him.

Naky Trinidad’s household was so excited once they noticed video on social media of her engagement simply earlier than New Yr’s. However their happiness quickly become horror.

Prosecutors allege that mere hours after popping the query, 52-year-old Jose Melo was charged with stabbing the 31-year-old to demise in her house in Elizabeth on Dec. 30.

“We’re speaking to her the night time earlier than, congratulating her on Fb for getting engaged. And when she didn’t reply, it struck a twine with us as a result of its not like her,” Trinidad’s uncle Brian advised NBC New York in a phone interview. “We came upon the following day she was taken, everyone seems to be devastated.”

Trinidad used to stay along with her uncle. Now, he’s serving to bury her over the weekend.

“It is celebrating her life, not mourning her demise. She was superior,” her uncle stated.

Trinidad left behind two daughters: one in all whom will quickly flip 4, the opposite 10 years outdated.

Investigators have but to disclose a motive within the killing, however family members say they by no means picked up on any relationship issues.

“We might’ve advised her to get away, we’d’ve performed what we needed to do. There’s loads of room in our house, she would’ve come right here. However she by no means stated a phrase – she suffered in silence,” stated Brian.

Her household arrange a GoFundMe web page to assist increase cash for Trinidad’s two daughters, as a memorial grows exterior the house the place she misplaced her life.

“Anyone that’s coping with home violence – don’t stay silent, that is the place it leads,” her uncle advised NBC New York.