$25,000 Raised For Boys Of Bergen Mother Stabbed To Death

More than $25,000 has been donated to date to help pay for Alex and Adam Bardzells’ educations. The children’s mother, Suzanne, was stabbed to death in her driveway Oct. 22.

The campaign is trying to raise $30,000.

Donated funds will be put into a trust for the boys. The funds will first be used to keep the boys in their Midland Park home so that Adam can finish his junior and senior years of high school there. The funds will then be used to help pay for the boys’ college educations.

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Arthur Lomando, Bardzell’s ex-boyfriend, is accused of stabbing the 48-year-old Teaneck teacher to death. He jumped in front of a moving subway car in New York City in an apparent suicide attempt hours after the stabbing, police said. He was taken to a Harlem hospital where both legs were amputated in an attempt to save his life. He has been charged with murder.

Bardzell recently told a friend and she feared for her life so much before the stabbing that she she said Lomando was “gonna kill me.”

Bardzell took out a restraining order against Lomando Oct. 8, which he allegedly violated four times the next day, Midland Park Police Chief Michael Powderley said in an NJ.com report. The restraining order was the result of several domestic violence incidents.