CARMEL - The husband of a 19-year-old woman who was murdered at home Friday morning has been charged with killing her.
Putnam County Sheriff Donald Smith said Paul Amay, 25, arrested Saturday on murder charges for killing Graciela Zhingri Amay, 19.
Smith said Amay is alleged to have strangled his wife outside their 34 Agor Lane, Mahopac Falls home and then dragged her inside where he stabbed her repeatedly in the chest.
Amay is in the United States illegally from Ecuador, said Smith. ICE has been notified, he said.
Amay and his wife lived with the victim's parents.
Her husband, who was wanted as a person of interest, was picked up Friday evening in Ossining and returned to Carmel for questioning, said Smith.
Mrs. Amay was a 2008 graduate of Mahopac High School and had been a BOCES Student of Distinction.
Police said they had been summoned to the home on several occasions for previous domestic violence disputes involving the young couple. Friday morning, Putnam County Sheriff’s deputies were asked to check on the woman’s welfare and her body was found on the floor of their home.
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