
Hero 16-year-old NYC boy saved sister as their mom’s boyfriend allegedly stabbed her to death in ‘gruesome’ attack
NY Post
A hero 16-year-old boy saved his sister during a brutal attack — pulling her back and getting stabbed instead — as their mother was allegedly hacked to death by her maniac boyfriend.
Jaylah Maldonado, 22, recalled the horrific weekend attack in which Juan Rivas, 45, allegedly plunged a kitchen knife into her mom Yesenia Hall’s chest, killing her, at their Bronx apartment, according to authorities.
“My mother’s last words to me were, ‘I’m sorry. I’m dying. I’m sorry,’” Maldonado wrote in a heartbreaking GoFundMe post.
Maldonado said that she and her teenage brother were startled awake early Saturday by their mom screaming in her bedroom at their apartment on Sherman Avenue near East 163rd Street in Concourse.
The young woman wanted to jump to her mom’s aid – but was held back by her brave younger brother, she recounted on the fundraising page.
Rivas then allegedly turned the weapon on the teen, stabbing and slashing him on the back and sides of his neck, left shoulder and left cheek, according to a criminal complaint.












