A 55-year-old man was found stabbed to death in his Prospect Heights apartment Wednesday night. Police say that Murat St. Hilaire was stabbed in the head with a corkscrew.
Carline Renelique, the mother of Hilaire's three children, was worried when she didn't hear from him on Wednesday morning (they do not live together, but he called her every morning). Newsday reports that when she realized he never arrived at Wycoff Heights Medical Center, where he worked as an orderly, she went to his apartment on Park Place with their 11-year-old daughter. There, girl and a neighbor found St. Hilaire lying face up, in his bedroom.
Renelique told Newsday, "My daughter went inside and came outside saying, 'Daddy's dead! Daddy's dead! Somebody stabbed him!' ...Nobody deserves to die like that. He was a nice guy."
No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.
