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Responding cops allegedly spotted a trail of blood from the building’s entrance on 68th Street to the apartment in which Carmelita Cabansag lived with her son, David Galicia.
By Forum Staff
A Woodside man has been charged with slashing his elderly mother to death last month, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Thursday.
David Galicia, 48, was arraigned while hospitalized on a complaint charging him with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree. He was remanded and ordered to return to court on May 28.
According to the charges, shortly after 7 a.m. on Friday, April 24, police responded to a 911 call from an apartment building on 41st Avenue. There, they allegedly spotted a trail of blood from the building’s entrance to the apartment in which Carmelita Cabansag lived with her son, David Galicia. Inside the apartment, police discovered the 78-year-old woman’s body on her kitchen floor. There were numerous wounds to the woman’s head and a bloody meat cleaver beside her.
According to the complaint, Galicia was present in the apartment when police arrived and was taken to a hospital for what appeared to be self-inflicted injuries. At the hospital, Galicia allegedly told police that he woke up, went to the bathroom and then took a butcher knife to his mother. Galicia allegedly further stated that he did not know why he did this.
“This was an alleged act of matricide with blood splattered on the walls and pooling on the floors in the living room and kitchen. The 78-year-old victim—her body found lifeless on the floor and slumped against a kitchen cabinet—was allegedly killed by her own son. The defendant, who was hospitalized, is in custody and charged in this heinous slaying,” Katz added.
If convicted, Galicia faces up to 25 years to life in prison.
