NEW YORK — A Queens father, in the moments before slamming the accelerator to run down his estranged wife, delivered a chilling messages to his three sons: “Keep your seat belt on,” prosecutors alleged Wednesday.
The boys then watched in horror from their seats inside the speeding SUV as their father, Stephen Giraldo, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) bus driver, plowed into his wife before jumping from the Ford Explorer to stab her after the collapse of a troubled 13-year marriage described by the victim as “toxic,” authorities said.
“I hit my wife, arrest me,” the suspect told police in an admission caught on body camera footage, according to prosecutors. Minutes earlier, the 36-year-old Giraldo had dialed 911 and said “I think I killed my wife,” prosecutors said at a Queens Criminal Court arraignment where the accused killer was ordered held without bail.
