New York City police this morning released the names of two children who were stabbed to death in a vicious attack allegedly by their nanny in the family's Upper West Side apartment.
The children's bodies were discovered in a bathtub by their mother. Their nanny was found lying unconscious nearby with apparently self-inflicted stab wounds to her neck, the NYPD said.
Lucia Krim, 6, and 2-year-old Leo Krim were killed in the attack. Both children were taken to a local hospital Thursday evening and pronounced dead.
The nanny, Yoselyn Ortega, 50, is in critical but stable condition at New York Presbyterian Hospital and has no criminal record, according to ABC station WABC. Ortega worked for the family for about a year. The investigation is ongoing and no charges have been filed at this time.
A preliminary police investigation had not yet yielded a possible motive for the deaths.
The children's father, Kevin Krim, a CNBC executive, was on a business trip in San Francisco at the time of the murders. He flew home Thursday night and polcie picked him up at the airport and rushed him to his family, authorities said.
The children's mother, Marina Krim, and her other child, a 3-year-old daughter, were returning from a swimming lesson to the luxury La Rochelle apartment building on the city's affluent Upper West Side at approximately 5:30 p.m. Thursday, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told reporters. When they found the second-floor apartment dark, she went back downstairs and asked the doorman if the nanny had left with the other children only to be told that was not the case.
She went back upstairs and discovered her two children stabbed in the tub. The nanny was found on the bathroom floor with stab wounds to her neck, and a kitchen knife was close by, police said. The mother's screams could be heard emanating from the apartment, Kelly said.
No charges have been filed and the investigation proceeded "aggressively," Kelly said, but the "operating assumption" was that the nanny's wounds were self-inflicted.
A neighbor who lives on the same floor in the building at 57 West 75th Street near Columbus Ave. told the AP that she heard screams around 5:30 p.m.
"There was some kind of screaming about, 'You slit her throat!' It was horrible," said the neighbor, Rima Starr, a music therapist.
"I met her in the elevator, the day before yesterday, and was making small talk," she said.
After police arrived, she told AP, the mother remained in the building's lobby, screaming hysterically and clutching her surviving child.
"[The mother was] crying out 'What am I going to do with the rest of my life? My life is ruined. I have no children, I have no children,'" neighbor Herbert Klein said.
Klein said he had met the nanny in the apartment building: "Once, I had the opportunity to say good morning cheerfully, and got no reply."
On a webpage devoted to a recent family wedding, the couple's daughter, nicknamed Lulu, was described as loving "art projects, ballet and all things princess." Her younger brother was said to be just learning how to walk.
Neighbors described the Krims as a vibrant, happy family.
"Young family. Busy family. Parties all the time and they have friends coming over," Klein said.
"A member of the CNBC family has suffered an unimaginable loss. The sadness that we all feel for Kevin, Marina and their family is without measure. Our thoughts, prayers and unwavering support are with them all, Comcast and NBC Universal said in a statement Friday morning.
ABC News' Michael S. James and Russell Goldman contributed to this report.
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