A New York man who reportedly burned himself alive in his chained-up car — killing his 3-year-old daughter who was in the back seat — has died from his injuries months after the grisly incident. Sources told the New York Daily News that Martin Pereira died on Tuesday at Jamaica Hospital, where he has undergone …
A New York father has now been criminally charged with murder and arson after he allegedly chained his young daughter inside a burning car, Newsday reports. Prosecutors on Friday took action against the man, 39-year-old Martin Pereira of Long Island. Two weeks earlier, on May 5, firefighters discovered his 3-year-old daughter, Zoey Pereira, inside a …
The father suspected of burning his 3-year-old daughter alive reportedly cannot speak to investigators because he was so severely injured in the car fire that he appears to have set himself. The New York Post reports that Martin Pereira, 39, remains hospitalized in the burn unit of Weill Cornell Medical Center and is medically sedated, …
The father arrested after his 3-year-old daughter was burned alive in the backseat of his car reportedly threatened to hurt the little girl earlier the day she died. As CrimeOnline previously reported, police in New York City removed 3-year-old Zoey Pereira from a smoldering car that had been left in the middle of a road …
Hours before she was pulled, dying from burns, from the backseat of her father’s car, the man now suspected of killing 3-year-old Zoey Pereira posted the last in a series of photos of his daughter on Facebook. According to the New York Daily News, relatives have identified Zoey’s father as Martin Pereira of Valley Stream, …
