New York City, NY: Husband stabs wife to death, then burns down house in failed suicide attempt, only to kill his one-year-old girl

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 10:57 AM on 3rd March 2011

A suicidal man stabbed his wife to death before starting a blaze at their home which killed their one-year-old baby girl but failed to kill him, police said.
Vincent Cordero started the blaze at the family apartment in the Bronx, New York, after neighbours heard the couple rowing.
Police and 60 fire fighters were called the fire which started this morning and managed to drag Cordero clear.


Dead: Mother and daughter, Kety and Keity, died after Vincent Cordero allegedly stabbed his wife to death and killed his daughter in a house fire at their home
But tiny Keity Sanchez was found dead in her cot with her face down are neighbours desperately tried to save the screaming tot but were overcome with smoke and flames.
Her mother, Kety Sanchez was found next to the bed having been stabbed three times in the chest.
Erick Carpio, a next-door neighbour told the New York Daily News: ‘I heard the parents fighting – they fought a lot.
‘Then I heard a loud explosion.’
The fire, which started at 7.50am in the family’s fifth-floor apartment, woke up Carpio, who rushed into the hallway after he heard screams from the girl’s grandmother, who also lived with the couple.

Vincent Cordero and his wife, Kety Sanchez. Cordero is accused of stabbing his wife and starting the fire which killed his baby
According to witnesses she was screaming ‘Fire! Fire! Somebody help me please! Help! The little baby is in there!’
Carpio said he rushed into the burning apartment but ‘there was just so much smoke, so much flames.
He added: ‘There was a lot of fire in the bedroom. I tried to get in there because I could still hear the baby crying’
‘Everything in there was black, it was like I was blind.
‘I couldn't find her, there was a lot of fire. I had to break down the bedroom door, it was locked.’
Initially Cordero was thought to have died, but he was rushed to St Barnabas Hospital where doctors managed to save him.
He remains in a critical condition.
Police are still investigating the exact cause of the fire.
A further two people residents in the six-floor building were treated for smoke inhalation and it took firefighters 30 minutes to extinguish the blaze.
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