Gabrielle Muñiz and her 6-year-old daughter Rozara Estévez found stabbed to death

Gabrielle Muñiz and her 6-year-old daughter Rozara Estévez were found stabbed to death.

The bodies of both victims were found inside their New York apartment.

The alleged murderer of Gabrielle Muñiz and her daughter was someone close to them.

Heartbreaking crime. Gabrielle Muñiz and her daughter Rozara Estévez, just 6 years old, were stabbed to death inside her apartment in New York. The authorities would later discover that the alleged murderer was someone very close to the woman and. After the murder he made a desperate decision.

Citing police authorities and other sources, The New York Post reported on Sunday, March 6, that a Bronx man had killed his girlfriend and her daughter inside their apartment. He then left the scene and killed himself in an apartment in a nearby building hours later.

The tragic deaths of Gabrielle Muñiz and her daughter Rozara

The bodies of 26-year-old Gabrielle Muñiz and her 6-year-old daughter Rozara Estévez were found with multiple stab wounds in a bedroom inside their home located on Monticello Avenue in the Bronx at around 11:50 p.m. Saturday night, police said.

“I am disgusted by what has happened because it has not only taken my sister, but also my niece,” Gisselle Muñiz, Gabrielle Muñiz’s sister, told the New York Post on Sunday. Holding back tears, she added: «I’m sure she watched her mommy die before she was taken.»

The suspect was found inside his own home

Sources identified the suspect as 35-year-old Caleb Duberry, boyfriend of Gabrielle Muñiz. He was on probation for assault at the time. Duberry barricaded himself inside an apartment a mile from where his girlfriend lived and fatally stabbed himself with a knife as police approached at around 12:15 p.m. on Sunday, the report said.

Gabrielle Muñiz had added her boyfriend to the rental agreement for the Monticello Avenue apartment a few months ago, according to the Post. Gisselle, who lives in Florida, said her sister had been in a relationship with Duberry for less than a year. The sources added that little Rozara was not his daughter.

The moving message from Gabrielle Muñiz’s sister

“I’m really good with vibes and I honestly didn’t like him that much. I just knew she was happy,» Gisselle said. According to the Post, Gabrielle Muñiz worked from home for a law firm and was also studying pharmacy. «She wanted to be a doctor one day,» added her sister.

“She was doing so well. I never expected this to happen. She did a lot for her daughter. That was her main motivation,» said Gisselle, who stressed that the girl was a «little ray of sunshine. She loved her unicorns. She was so sweet. Just thinking about her and hearing her voice in my head, I can’t believe this happened to her too. She was so sweet and innocent. She had just turned six years old.”

A security camera recorded Gabrielle Muñiz and her boyfriend shortly before the tragedy

Screenshot of video posted by CBS News

Duberry had a long history of arrests for weapons possession, robbery and assault, according to sources cited by the New York Post. He and Gabrielle Muniz were last seen on surveillance video at around 9:30 p.m. on Friday, as they left their apartment to take out the trash.

Duberry was seen going in and out of the apartment several times the next morning until he left for good at around 4:30 p.m., sources said. The motive for the double murder was not immediately clear, according to the Post

The brutal attack on the mother and her daughter

Police sources told the Post that Gabrielle Muñiz was found with multiple stab wounds to the head, back and arms, while little Rozara Estévez suffered head trauma as well as multiple stab wounds to the face.

A neighbor identified as María Ynasate told the Post that she was “shocked” by the sickening violence that occurred in her building and expressed her distress: “A young mother and her daughter is a lot to take in, especially on a block where nothing bad ever happens. It’s awful. They haven’t lived a life yet. She was still a baby. She hadn’t made it to high school.»