When a man from New York fatally stabbed his wife, he also injured his son in an attempt to protect her. The man could spend the rest of his life behind bars.
When Wioleta Murawski, 38, was killed in her Long Island backyard in January, Ryszard Murawski, 44, entered a guilty plea on Tuesday to second-degree murder. On January 3, 2024, at about 8:30 p.m., Ryszard Murawski attacked his wife, according to a statement from the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office.
The prosecutor’s statement stated that the 15-year-old son of the couple called 911 and reported that his father had stabbed his mother before driving off in a black GMC pickup truck.
According to the district attorney’s office, “the teen, distraught during the duration of the call, begged the police for help as he desperately tried to save his mother’s life.” He reported to the police that he heard his mother calling out for assistance in the backyard after returning home from a friend’s house. He claimed to have listened to his father stabbing his mother with a “large, serrated knife” as he fled to the garden.
The son of the Murawskies made an effort to put an end to the abuse.
“The boy jumped on his father and struggled with him until his mother was able to break free,” the DA’s statement said. “Wioleta Murawski could stumble across the street before collapsing with her son by her side.”
She was brought to a hospital, but she did not make it out of the attack.
The prosecutor claimed that the Murawski family’s home camera system had reportedly recorded the “brutal attack.”
Murawski left the house and kept running while the cops chased after him.
“Multiple police units pursued Murawski for more than seven miles with lights and sirens before the defendant lost control of his vehicle and crashed into the side of a building,” the statement said.
Murawski could spend 22 years of life behind bars. On October 17, he is scheduled to appear in court again.
“This is a tragic case of domestic violence that ended with the senseless death of Wioleta Murawski and horrific trauma to their child,” District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney said in the statement. “This defendant will now have to pay for his actions in prison.”
“Domestic violence is never the answer,” Tierney added, urging victims of domestic abuse to reach out to police for help.
