Ex-Cop Kills N.J. Woman, Jumps At Train, Loses Legs: Prosecutor

By Dan Hubbard and Tom Davis

A 48-year-old woman was found fatally stabbed in her vehicle at her N.J. home Thursday afternoon after her attacker, an ex-cop, threw himself into a train, authorities said.

The ex-cop, Arthur Lomando, lost his legs in the apparent suicide attempt, according to ABC News and NJ.com.

Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli identified the woman as Suzanne Bardzell.

Molinelli posted on Twitter at 9:41 p.m. that the attacker, Lomando, was in custody, but one minute later, posted that he threw himself in front of New York City subway at Amsterdam and St. Nicholas avenues. He was taken to a Harlem hospital with head and leg injuries, the prosecutor said.

Molinelli said Bardzell returned home in her SUV at 3:26 p.m. when Lomando smashed the driver’s-side window in Midland Park and attacked her with a very large, machete-type of knife, striking her several times, The Record reported.

Bardzell, a special education teacher in Teaneck and mother of two teenage boys, and Lomando, a former employee of the New York Police Department, met online three years ago and had been dating all that time, Molinelli said in the report.

Bardzell recently received an order of protection against Lomando after several domestic violence incidents, according to the report.

Neighbors said police had been called to the home in the past month and that a police patrol was assigned to watch the residence, the report stated.

(Pictured: Arthur Lomando and the victim, Suzanne Bardzell, 48)