Bronx, NY
Poisoning
Lisette Bamenga, 29, was arrested Saturday in the deaths of her 5-year-old son Trevor Noel Jr. and her 4-month-old daughter Lillian Noel. The children were found shortly before midnight Thursday when police responded to a 911 call of a gas leak. Authorities told CBS New York that Bamenga poisoned the children with windshield de-icing fluid before turning on the gas in her kitchen and slashing her wrists. The two children were pronounced dead at the scene, while Bamenga was rushed to a nearby hospital. Police said she left a note and was attempting a murder-suicide.
Lisette Bamenga, NYC mother, arrested for allegedly poisoning 2 kids in double
murder-attempted suicide, police say
(CBS/WCBS/AP) NEW YORK - Police say a woman who turned on the gas in her
Bronx apartment and slit her own wrists has been arrested in the deaths of her
two children.
Lisette Bamenga, 29, was arrested Saturday in the deaths of her 5-year-old son Trevor Noel Jr. and her 4-month-old daughter Lillian Noel.
The children were found shortly before midnight Thursday when police responded to a 911 call of a gas leak
.
Authorities told CBS New York that Bamenga poisoned the children with windshield de-icing fluid before turning on the gas in her kitchen and slashing her wrists. The two children were pronounced dead at the scene, while Bamenga was rushed to a nearby hospital.
Police said she left a note and was attempting a murder-suicide.
Witnesses told CBS New York that they were awakened by the strong smell of gas and heard the children's father, who the New York Daily News identified as rookie NYPD Officer Trevor Noel, banging on the door trying to get inside. Police said Balmenga was distraught over her relationship with the officer.
CBS New York reports that witnesses say the children's father lives in Bronx apartment as well.
Published reports say Bamenga was a city schoolteacher. The Daily News reports that she has been charged with two counts of murder.
Lisette Bamenga, 29, was arrested Saturday in the deaths of her 5-year-old son Trevor Noel Jr. and her 4-month-old daughter Lillian Noel.
The children were found shortly before midnight Thursday when police responded to a 911 call of a gas leak
.
Authorities told CBS New York that Bamenga poisoned the children with windshield de-icing fluid before turning on the gas in her kitchen and slashing her wrists. The two children were pronounced dead at the scene, while Bamenga was rushed to a nearby hospital.
Police said she left a note and was attempting a murder-suicide.
Witnesses told CBS New York that they were awakened by the strong smell of gas and heard the children's father, who the New York Daily News identified as rookie NYPD Officer Trevor Noel, banging on the door trying to get inside. Police said Balmenga was distraught over her relationship with the officer.
CBS New York reports that witnesses say the children's father lives in Bronx apartment as well.
Published reports say Bamenga was a city schoolteacher. The Daily News reports that she has been charged with two counts of murder.
Two Children Dead in Bronx Murder, Attempted Suicide
July 6, 2012, 12:41 PM ET By Sean Gardiner
http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2012/07/06/two-children-dead-in-a-murder-attempted-suicide-in-bronx/
A Bronx mother penned a suicide note then gave her two young children a fatal drink containing chemical de-icer before slitting her wrists and turning on the gas on her stove, authorities said.
Neighbors smelled the gas emanating from elementary school teacher Lisette Bamenga’s 9th floor apartment inside 1500 Noble Ave. in the Bronx and notified building security officials, who called 911 around 11:55 p.m. Thursday. New York City firefighters and police officers responded and took down the locked door.
In the kitchen, they found Bamenga, 29 years old, unconscious on the floor with cut marks on her wrists. Near the mother were the bodies of her five-year-old son, Trevor Noel, and four-month-old daughter, Liliane Noel, officials said.
Authorities also found a note the mother wrote stating that she was taking her children “to a better place,” according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the incident.
That official said Bamenga gave her children the de-icer to drink before unsuccessfully attempting to kill herself. She was taken to Jacobi Medical Center, where she is in stable condition.
Bamenga just completed her first year as a teacher at Public School 58 in Brooklyn, according to the Department of Education. She previously taught from September 2005 to August 2006 at PS 58 in the Bronx.
The father of the two children, Trevor Noel, is a New York City police officer.
A Bronx mother penned a suicide note then gave her two young children a fatal drink containing chemical de-icer before slitting her wrists and turning on the gas on her stove, authorities said.
Neighbors smelled the gas emanating from elementary school teacher Lisette Bamenga’s 9th floor apartment inside 1500 Noble Ave. in the Bronx and notified building security officials, who called 911 around 11:55 p.m. Thursday. New York City firefighters and police officers responded and took down the locked door.
In the kitchen, they found Bamenga, 29 years old, unconscious on the floor with cut marks on her wrists. Near the mother were the bodies of her five-year-old son, Trevor Noel, and four-month-old daughter, Liliane Noel, officials said.
Authorities also found a note the mother wrote stating that she was taking her children “to a better place,” according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the incident.
That official said Bamenga gave her children the de-icer to drink before unsuccessfully attempting to kill herself. She was taken to Jacobi Medical Center, where she is in stable condition.
Bamenga just completed her first year as a teacher at Public School 58 in Brooklyn, according to the Department of Education. She previously taught from September 2005 to August 2006 at PS 58 in the Bronx.
The father of the two children, Trevor Noel, is a New York City police officer.
BX. mom 'poisoned' kids in suicide bid to get back at 'cheating' hubby: sources
A city schoolteacher, convinced her cop husband had cheated on her, allegedly murdered their two kids — poisoning them, then sealing their Bronx apartment’s windows with plastic before turning on the gas, sources told The Post yesterday.Lissette Bamenga, 29 — who slit her wrists in a suicide attempt during the Thursday horror — believed Officer Trevor Noel had gotten another woman pregnant, and she allegedly wanted to punish him by killing 5-year-old Trevor Jr. and Liliane, who was just 4 months old, the sources said.
The children were declared dead at the scene. Bamenga was rushed to Jacobi Hospital, where she remained in stable condition.
“You got what you wanted,” she allegedly wrote in one of two suicide notes. “Me and the kids are in a better place now.”
Bamenga also wrote “DNR,” meaning “do not resuscitate,” for whoever found her in the gas-filled apartment at 1500 Noble Ave. in Parkchester.
Noel, who had just finished the night shift at Manhattan’s 28th Precinct, was unable to speak when he arrived at the scene.
Sources said Bamenga believed her husband fathered a child with a woman in Spain — and she was furious.
“In a jealous rage, his wife killed her children and then tried to kill herself,” a law-enforcement source said.
The ghastly final act, however, appeared carefully thought out.
First, Bamenga allegedly fed her kids juice spiked with a de-icer, which is colorless, odorless, sweet — and deadly. Police found a bottle containing de-icer in the apartment.
Then she slashed her wrists. But the wounds weren’t deep enough to be fatal.
Finally, she allegedly sealed off the windows of the ninth-floor apartment with plastic sheets and turned on the gas burners of the kitchen stove.
At around 11 p.m., another tenant called 911 to report the heavy smell of gas.
Firefighters knocked down the door, and EMS workers administered CPR to the 5-year-old on the floor of the apartment hallway, said Davis Rodriguez, 17, who lives on the same floor.
Another neighbor, Gwen Richardson, 71, said she saw Bamenga in the hallway surrounded by firefighters who were trying to get her to respond.
“I could hear them going, ‘Miss, Miss, can you hear me?’ ” Richardson said.
Bamenga, originally from France, moved to the United States from the Democratic Republic of the Congo about 12 years ago and eventually married Noel, 31.
Bamenga taught at PS 58 in The Bronx from 2005 to 2006 before giving birth to Trevor Jr. She returned to work, teaching at Brooklyn’s PS 58 last year while pregnant with their daughter.
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