Police: Former NYPD Officer From Long Island Kills Ex-Girlfriend With Machete, Throws Himself in Front of Subway Train

BY DANIEL HUBBARD

A former NYPD officer from Centereach killed his ex-girlfriend with a machete in New Jersey on Thursday afternoon and then jumped in front of a New York City subway train while trying to escape police, authorities said.

Suzanne Bardzell, 48, was found fatally stabbed in her vehicle at her Midland Park home, police said.

Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli posted on Twitter at 9:41 p.m. Thursday that the attacker, 44-year-old Arthur Lomando, was in custody, but one minute later, posted that he threw himself in front of a New York City subway train 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 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 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)