A girl brutally murdered and left within the stairwell of a Bronx residence constructing was tied up and tortured earlier than her dying, enduring horrific depravity that included being stabbed and crushed, police stated Thursday.
Post-mortem outcomes on Princesa Incarnacion-Soto, 21, confirmed each outdated and new bruises on the tragic sufferer, a sign to cops that her violent dying was the newest in a protracted line of abuse that culminated in her grisly dying.
“She is beaten up so bad that we started the autopsy yesterday,” stated NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny, [and] it’s nonetheless occurring.”
Members of the NYPD crime scene unit take away extra proof exterior 2295 Grand Concourse within the Bronx on July 24, 2025. (Kerry Burke/New York Day by day Information)
Investigators stated Incarnacion-Soto and her boyfriend, Robert Strother, had damaged up and that she had gone to Rhode Island, the place her mother and father stay earlier than returning to the Bronx.
“My daughter was lovely. Lovely,“ stated the sufferer’s mom, Jecibelle Soto, 39, from her dwelling in Rhode Island. “She was a great particular person, a great daughter, a great sister, and a great good friend“
“She was not speculated to die like that,“ she stated via tears. Soto stated that her daughter had been in an abusive relationship together with her boyfriend for greater than two years however had just lately ended issues.
Police are in search of Strother and have possible trigger to arrest him, Kenny stated.
“They were together for almost three years. She met him of Instagram,“ she said. “He said he loved her.”
“My daughter left him and came home,” Soto stated. “He called and said I love you and I won’t do that again. Come back.”
On July 11 Incarnacion-Soto moved again into the Bronx residence, the place indications level to her life changing into a dwelling hell.
Police had stated there was no reported historical past of home violence between the sufferer and her 26-year-old boyfriend, however officers stated the bruises confirmed in any other case. Kenny additionally stated the boyfriend had 22 home violence incidents reported in opposition to him, however none involving the sufferer.
An NYPD police officer stands exterior the victims residence inside 2295 Grand Concourse within the Bronx on July 23, 2025. (Kerry Burke/New York Day by day Information)
“We believe that she was tied down to the bed, based on the blood that was on the bed. The wounds themselves were inflicted for pain not to kill,” Kenny stated.
“There are slice marks on her thighs, slice marks on her upper arms and shoulders. The ones on her legs were fresh. The ones on her upper torso seemed like they were in the process of healing.”
Cops stated they imagine the sufferer was tortured and probably tied up since she had bruising on her arms, legs and face, in addition to cuts on her proper arm and again.
She suffered a number of stab and puncture wounds and razor markings and had been crushed with a hammer, police sources stated.
Police recovered a bloody rope, bungee twine, clothes, blankets and underpants from the crime scene, Kenny stated. Cops additionally recovered surveillance video from the constructing displaying the boyfriend leaving the situation, he stated.
The boyfriend’s 54-year-old mom, Nadia Jorge, was taken in for questioning after she was seen dropping off a black rubbish bag close to the constructing’s boiler room after the sufferer was found, neighbors stated.
Contained in the bag had been bloody garments and cleansing provides, based on neighbors. No costs had been instantly filed in opposition to her.
“She did attempt to clean up the crime scene,” Kenny stated of Jorge. “There was no blood on [the victim]. There was no blood on her as she lay on the staircase and she was in fresh clothing that had no blood on it. So it’s a possibility that someone cleaned the body, put fresh clothes on her and threw her down a flight of stairs.”
Jorge initially let cops into her residence, the place she lived together with her son and the sufferer. However when cops noticed blood on the mattress, she advised them to go away, Kenny stated. They returned with a search warrant.
“There was a smell of fresh bleach in the area. The apartment was not the tidiest but in only certain spots was the bleach used to clean,” Kenny stated.
Days after Incarnacion-Soto’s dying, neighbors let unfastened concerning the tenants within the fourth-floor Grand Concourse unit the place the bloody path started.
“They’re troublemakers,” stated neighbor Beverly Williams, 63. “They do everything — mess with people, lie on people, start trouble with people.”
A number of weeks in the past, Williams stated, a lady got here to the constructing in search of her lacking daughter, saying a hint on her cellphone had led her to the Bronx.
Soto confirmed she had been there in search of her daughter, however in the end wasn’t capable of find her and returned dwelling.
“I want him and his mother to go to prison for life,” stated Soto. “The mother knew what was going on and she didn’t call the police. She did nothing.”
“She was my heart. And my heart is broken,” she stated of her daughter, dissolving into tears. “I want justice.”
Initially Printed: July 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM EDT
