A Brooklyn woman was found dead in her home with a severe neck wound after her teenage son came upon the horrifying scene, police and distraught relatives said.
Maria Santos Flores was discovered inside her residence on 85th Street near 4th Avenue in Bay Ridge with a cut to her neck, according to authorities.
Her 17-year-old son and her sister, Angelica Flores, were the ones who found her, family members said.
“I came to visit her and found her like this,” Angelica told The Post outside the home, where grieving relatives gathered, crying and embracing one another. “She had just come home from work.”
Another sister, Daisy Flores, said the family is originally from El Salvador.
“She liked to help people and she took care of her family,” Daisy said through tears. “We don’t understand what happened.”
Flores, 36, worked nights as a bartender at Huatulco Sports Bar in Sunset Park, according to her family.
Her husband, Antonio Hernandez, said relatives were still waiting for answers from investigators. “The police aren’t telling us what happened yet,” he said. “We are waiting. We don’t know anything. There is a suspicion that someone followed her home from work.”
The couple has been married for three years. Their two children, 3 and 17, were home at the time of the crime, he said.
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“When I took the car this morning to go to work, she hadn’t arrived yet,” he said, explaining that he went to work at 7:30 a.m.
NYPD officers placed yellow evidence markers on items on the sidewalk outside, including one that appeared to be a bloody tissue. Cops also carried evidence bags from the home to an NYPD truck.
The murder marks the first in the NYPD’s 68th Precinct so far this year, according to the department’s crime data. The precinct serves the southwestern portion of Brooklyn, and includes Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights.
The city has seen a 23% drop in murders so far this year, to 111 from 144 at this point in 2025, the data show.
Huatulco bar owner Felipe Ortega said that Flores “never missed a day of work. Not a single day.”
“She was very responsible with her work. Reliable. Kind.
He explained that her death was akin to “losing someone from your family.”
“Every year, at the end of the year we have a celebration,” Ortega said.
“And we invite everyone. She’d been working here about 3 years.”
“She never brought her family here,” he continued.
“Her kids. She was very private about her family.”
