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New York

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Fri Jan 24, 2014, 02:33 PM Jan 2014

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Queens father charged in horrific murders

Eyewitness News
NEW YORK (WABC) -- The man accused of killing his wife and two daughters made his first court appearance in Queens Friday.

Miguel Ramos-Mejia, 28, was charged with six counts of first- and second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the deaths of 21-year-old Deisy Garcia, 2-year-old Daniela Mejia and 1-year-old Yoslin Mejia.

He was ordered held without bail. The judge granted a defense request for protective custody and suicide watch.

Garcia and the two children were brutally stabbed to death inside their Jamaica apartment shared with his uncle's family last week.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=9405383