Report: After Crash, Bronx Woman Stabbed to Death By Ex-Flame

AI_Stabbing-1 — Police investigate a road-rage / domestic violence incident outside of Co-Op City in the Bronx. (Photo by David Greene)

Police responding to a call of an overturned vehicle at just before 4 a.m. today on the northbound New England Thruway at the Pelham Parkway exit, discovered the body of 20-year old Parkchester resident Katherine German, who had been stabbed several times. German’s 31-year old ex-boyfriend, Daniel Espinal, was taken into custody at the scene. Police say Espinal, a cabbie with Kiss Car Service who had a small child with German, had run the SUV German was traveling in with another man off the thruway.

The Daily News is reporting that Espinal discovered German leaving a Bronx hotel with the SUV driver and followed them onto the thruway. After crashing into them, the SUV flipped onto its side, apparently trapping German inside. That’s when, the Daily News reports, Espinal went in to finish the job. He was waiting at the scene when police arrived. The driver of the SUV survived and refused medical attention.

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