Overview
- Police took 45-year-old Juan Rivas into custody and charged him with murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, assault, and weapon possession.
- The attack occurred around 6:30–6:40 a.m. on Feb. 28 inside a Sherman Avenue apartment in the Bronx’s 44th Precinct.
- Officers found 42-year-old Yesenia Hall fatally stabbed and her 16-year-old son wounded in the neck and back; both were taken to Lincoln Hospital.
- Authorities say the assailant fled after changing into a reflective construction vest and hardhat before he was apprehended.
- Investigators say Rivas and Hall lived together, and the teen is expected to survive.