“It seems like this family was very well-liked and very active in their community, so obviously my condolences go out to their family, friends, and neighbors who had to suffer through this.”
A Dominican Republic national in the US illegally has been charged with the brutal murders of a family of four in Irondequoit, New York. The deaths were discovered after the home was torched and the bodies of the four victims were found inside.
34-year-old Julio Cesar Pimentel-Soriano is accused of fatally stabbing Fraime Ubaldo, 30, Marangely Moreno-Santiago, 26, and their two children, Evangeline Ubaldo-Moreno, 4, and Sebastian Ubaldo-Moreno, 2, in their home on August 31.
“Obviously, the allegations are troubling,” Assistant District Attorney Perry Duckles told WHAM. “They are difficult to deal with. They are difficult to see.”
“It seems like this family was very well-liked and very active in their community, so obviously my condolences go out to their family, friends, and neighbors who had to suffer through this,” he added.
The horrific scene was discovered when firefighters responded to multiple fires near the family’s home on August 31. Authorities said it was “readily apparent” the deaths were homicides. Irondequoit Police Chief Scott Peters described it as a “horrific scene,” saying that in his 32 years of doing his job, he had “never seen anything like it.”
Pimentel-Soriano was arrested one week after the killings took place. According to police, he had entered Puerto Rico illegally and obtained a fake New York ID which he used to travel to the mainland US. He is also wanted for a 2019 homicide in the Dominican Republic, and an arrest warrant for him was issued by Dominican authorities just last week.
“Our condolences go out to the family, their friends and neighbors,” Irondequoit Town Supervisor Andrae Evans said in a statement to Spectrum News. “I’m so sorry this has happened, but I want you to know that the Town Board and I will authorize anything that’s needed to our police department to collaborate and to use any and all resources to bring these people to justice.”
The suspect faces charges of second-degree murder, with the case now moved to a grand jury.
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