HARLEM — Police arrested Emma Cornelius on Tuesday, charging her with manslaughter in the stabbing death of her 37-year-old boyfriend inside her Harlem apartment Monday night, NYPD officials said.
Cops responded to a call at her third-floor apartment at 119 W. 137th St. at about 9:35 p.m. and found Christopher Joseph, of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn stabbed once to the torso, the NYPD said. He was taken to Harlem Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Joseph and 28-year-old Cornelius had a child together, police said.
A neighbor said that Cornelius pounded on his door after 9 p.m. Monday, begging to use his phone.
"She said, 'Call the cops. My boyfriend's hurt, he hurt himself.'" said the 23-year-old man, who asked that his name not be used. "I handed her my phone."
"She said he hurt himself. She never said how," he added.
A man was stabbed to death inside 119 W. 137th St., Nov. 7, 2011. (DNAinfo/Sonja Sharp)
He said he followed Cornelius into the hallway as she called 911, and saw Joseph slumped against the doorway of her apartment, with blood seeping from a wound on his left side.
"He was unconscious. When I saw him, he was slouched up on the wall. I saw blood on his left side," the neighbor said. "[There was] a rag covering it. You could see blood on the rag."
The neighbor added that Joseph was "still breathing the whole time before the ambulance came — it sounded like a snore."
He said Cornelius was told by the 911 dispather to lay the stabbed man down on the floor. "I stepped in and helped her," he said.
Another neighbor, Quincy Jones, 36, said the victim went by the nickname "Brooklyn" and was "a good, calm guy, stays to himself."
Jones added: "Every time I seen him, he's with his family."
He said the couple had a baby daughter together, who he said was taken away by officials Monday night.
The city's Administration for Children's Services did not immediately return phone calls.
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