A former NYPD employee stabbed his 48-year-old ex-girlfriend to death with a "machete-type knife" in her car in Midland Park, New Jersey, then threw himself in front of a subway train in New York City hours later, authorities said.
Authorities had been searching for Arthur Lomando in the stabbing death of Suzanne Bardzell, a mother of two and a special education teacher, after she was found stabbed inside her car in her driveway Thursday, Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli said.
Lomando "confronted her in the driveway, broke her left window and then attacked her with a very large machete-type of knife," said Molinelli.
The car was still running and the machete was inside the car when authorities found Bardzell.
Molinelli later said in a tweet that Lomando was at Harlem Hospital with severe injuries to his head and legs and was undergoing surgery after he threw himself in front of a train at Amsterdam Avenue and St. Nicholas.
Lomando was estranged from Bardzell after a three-year relationship. Bardzell had filed a restraining order against Lomando on Oct. 5, and he violated the order days later, the prosecutor said.
The two had a history of domestic issues, according to Molinelli.
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Neighbors told NBC 4 New York there had recently been police activity on the victim's street several times in the past few weeks.
Bardzell had two children, ages 18 and 16, according to the prosecutor.
Lomando worked for the NYPD at some point, according to Molinelli, and had filed a petition in 2005 to be reinstated. According to a law website summary of the case, the petition stated Lomando was a probationary employee when he was terminated for "making false and misleading statements to police department psychologists and to a ranking officer."
The NYPD was not commenting on the matter.
