Man Allegedly Stabbed To Death, Woman Wounded For 'Making Noise'

A woman was wounded by her neighbor and her friend was allegedly stabbed to death, reportedly over noise complaints in a New York City apartment.

Jose Ortiz, 65, reportedly went into a frenzy at around 9 p.m. Friday, and repeatedly banged on 39-year-old Vanessa Guzman's door on the third floor of a University Avenue apartment in Highbridge, Bronx.

This prompted Guzman to seek refuge in the apartment of another neighbor, identified as Justina Cruz. A short while later, Ortiz chased Guzman across Cruz's residence and then stabbed her twice in the torso and arm, the New York Daily reported.

"I heard Vanessa scream, so I went to go help her ... he turned around and pointed the knife right at me," neighbor Khadeja Depasqua, who witnessed the stabbing with her 6-year-old son, told the outlet Saturday. "We started screaming 'Get out! Get out!'"

After wounding Guzman, Ortiz turned to Tyrone Quick, 45, who was standing outside the apartment, and fatally stabbed him in the chest. Quick, who lived on Nelson Avenue, was visiting Guzman at the time of the stabbing. A wounded Quick managed to get into the elevator and took it to an upper floor, where he eventually collapsed, according to authorities.

"Somehow Tyrone had made it to the elevator. I don't know how but he ended up on the sixth floor. He never goes to the sixth floor. He was just trying to run away," Cruz said, as per the New York Post.

Cruz told officials that the suspect often argued with his neighbors and threatened them over various issues.

"We've expressed that this man was crazy," Cruz said. "He would come and he would just argue with us. He would come out [of] his house and make threats and stuff all the time, and he was always arguing."

"He [Ortiz] is always banging on the f****** wall and acting like somebody is making noise. He is banging on Vanessa's door. Vanessa lives by herself. Vanessa has no kids, no pets. Vanessa doesn't have anything. Vanessa does not even listen to loud music and this man is banging on her wall and causing havoc," Cruz added.

While Quick died at the scene, medics rushed Guzman to a nearby hospital, where she was treated for her injuries and was expected to recover.

Cruz said Ortiz had threatened to kill them the night before.

"The night before he [Ortiz] actually came out [of] his house with a knife," Cruz said. "He was saying he was going to kill us, he said he was going to kill Vanessa."

According to Cruz, Ortiz "waited for cops," and was arrested without incident. He was charged with murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, attempted manslaughter, assault and criminal possession of a weapon.

Officials were investigating if a "complaint over noise" caused the stabbing. "That's preliminary," a police spokesperson told the New York Post.