'Non-Violent Domestic Calls' Logged At LI Home Where Husband Stabbed Estranged Wife To Death: Police

FARMINGVILLE, NY — There were "a few non-violent domestic calls" over the past few months at the Farmingville home where a husband stabbed his estranged wife to death, hurt a child who jumped in to stop it, and then turned the weapon on himself on Thursday night, Suffolk police said.

Officers from the 6th Precinct in Selden were called to the Granny Road home after a 911 caller reported a domestic incident at around 8:15 p.m., and when they arrived, they found Adriana Barbosa and Marcos Marques-Leal with stab wounds, according to police.

A child relative, in her teens, who was not only at home during the bloody attack, but suffered superficial wounds when she tried to put an end to the attack, police said.

Leal and Barbosa did not live together, and no one else was in the unit, but there was a downstairs tenant who was home at the time of the stabbing, according to police.

The motive for the attack is under investigation, a police spokesman said.

Barbosa, 46, was taken to Stony Brook University Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, and the teenager was treated there for non-life-threatening injuries, police said, adding, that Marques-Leal, 57, was also taken there for treatment of serious injuries.

Homicide Squad detectives charged Leal with second-degree murder, first-degree criminal contempt, and endangering the welfare of a child.

He will be arraigned at a later date.

It is not clear if he has legal representation.

Further information was not released.

Granny Road was closed from Mount McKinley to Old Medford avenues from about 8:30 p.m. for several hours while police investigated, News 12 reported.