Overview
- Family members discovered 36-year-old Maria Santos Flores inside her home on 85th Street with a cut to her neck and summoned police.
- Flores worked night shifts as a bartender in Sunset Park and lived at the house with her husband and two children, ages 3 and 17.
- NYPD officers marked items at the scene, including a bloody tissue, and carried evidence bags while canvassing nearby homes for surveillance.
- The department has not announced a motive or any arrests and says the homicide investigation remains active.
- The killing is the first reported homicide this year in the NYPD’s 68th Precinct, which covers Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights, and neighbors and family members said they are deeply shaken as detectives continue the inquiry.