A transgender lady {accused} of killing her father allegedly instructed police she struck him in a head with a hammer earlier than stabbing him and her sister.
Nikki Secondino, 22, was arrested and charged for the homicide of her father, Carlo, 61, and tried homicide of her 19-year-old sister, Liana, who’s in vital situation.
Sources instructed the New York Publish Secondindo confessed to the stabbings at her household’s Brooklyn residence and stated she would have additionally killed the neighbor who known as 911.
‘My father was sitting on the sofa,’ she allegedly instructed police. ‘I hit him on the pinnacle with a hammer. Then I reached for my favourite German knife and stabbed the s*** out of him.
‘My sister got here out and tried to cease me, and I stabbed her within the again, head and abdomen,’ Nikki allegedly added. ‘I wished them useless.’
The supposed confession comes as an interview from 2020 surfaced, the place Secondino spoke about popping out as a trans lady to her divorced mother and father and described her father as ‘very Italian’ and ‘very non secular.’
Nikki Secondino, 22, allegedly confessed to killing her father and stabbing her sister. The trans lady is pictured being taken into custody by police on Thursday night time
Secondino, proper, has been charged with the homicide of her father, Carlo Secondino, 61, heart, and tried homicide her sister, Liana, left
Sources stated she additionally instructed police she would have killed her neighbor for calling 911
Initially, police suspected that the stabbing incident was related to a house invasion, however studies instructed that Secondino could have fabricated the story in an try to cowl up the crime.
Carlo was pronounced useless on the scene and his different daughter was rushed to Maimonides Medical Middle, simply days forward of her twentieth birthday.
The household seemed to be in heavy turmoil, with data displaying the Secondino tried to get a brief order of safety in opposition to her father and sister in July, in accordance with the Publish.
The order seemed to be a results of a July 15 incident the place police had been known as to the Brooklyn residence as Secondino claimed her father was within the mob and had threatened to kill her.
Two days later, Liana was charged with assault and felony mischief for allegedly chopping Nikki’s hand and tearing down window blinds.
Though officers didn’t imagine Carlo had any connections with the mob, data present a choose did log out on the safety order.
It has additionally been revealed that Secondino bought a momentary order of safety in opposition to her father and sister in July
She claimed her father (pictured) was a member of the mob and threatened to kill her, and her sister was additionally charged for chopping Secondino’s hand
A resurfaced interview from 2020 particulars Secondino’s struggles popping out to her household
An additional look into the household’s previous turned up a two-year-old interview Secondino had completed with a YouTube channel specializing in supporting trans people.
Within the video, Secondino described her father as a standard Italian man who wished nothing to do along with her transition to a lady.
‘My dad was speechless,’ she stated. ‘He did not know what to say. My mother did not know what to say, and round that point prefer it actually wasn’t talked about.
‘My mother and father had been very non secular. Like we went to church each Sunday and stuff,’ she added.
Secondino additionally recalled an early incident in her childhood when she refused to put on boy’s swimming trunks regardless of her mom’s objections.
‘She pressured me to… placed on a boy, you understand, swimming trunks, Secondino stated, ‘and I had a full blown meltdown. I simply cried screamed.’
Pictured: Police arriving on the scene of the crime on the household’s Brooklyn residence
Secondino suffered slash wounds to the palms and was taken to the hospital in steady situation
Secondino initially tried to cowl up the alleged crime as a house invasion, calling 911 to report a break-in
It was initially reported that two male robbers broke into the house on seventeenth Avenue, round 6am and demanded cash from a secure, in accordance with police, earlier than they attacked the household of three and fled on foot.
Nonetheless, police now imagine that Secondino was answerable for the assault.
Secondino suffered slash wounds to the palms and was hospitalized in steady situation.
Neighbors described a horrific scene: ‘I heard like wrestling, preventing,’ stated the neighbor. ‘I did hear the daddy. He pleaded to me ‘Please name the cops!’ … The entrance of his chest proper there, it was saturated in purple like he was carrying a purple vest,’ stated one neighbor to the New York Each day Information.
One other lady described how Secondino banged on her door to get in.
”Oh my god! Oh my god! Open up the door!” she recalled her screaming. ‘I noticed the blood within the hallway so I instantly closed my door and I did not need to get entangled.’
‘He was similar to mendacity there. His head was going through in direction of the window, the kitchen window. He was face up mendacity on his again,’ the neighbor recalled.
‘Each time after they argue there was banging. As a result of the partitions are simply sheetrock, I might hear every thing.’
