For the second time in 10 years, detectives and crime scene investigators are investigating a brutal murder at a Noble Avenue building in the Van Nest section of The Bronx. This time, the life of a woman was taken.

Police officials said on Wednesday, Feb. 16, at around 4.26 a.m., officers and detectives responded to a call regarding an assault in progress on the 10th floor apartment at 1500 Noble Avenue.

Upon arrival, officers observed a 45-year-old female with multiple stab wounds about the torso. EMS responded to the location and transported the victim to NYC Health & Hospitals/Jacobi, where she was pronounced deceased. She was later identified as Flor Recio.

Police later arrested and charged, Exiquio Castillo, 47, of Grand Concourse with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon. Several media outlets reported that Castillo was Recio’s former boyfriend and the father of her children.

The building was the site of another horrific scene back on July 6, 2012, when public school teacher, Lisette Bamenga, gassed and drowned her two children. Trevor Noel, Jr., 5, died at the scene, and 4-year-old, Lillian Noel, died at Jacobi Hospital.

In 2016, a Bronx judge sentenced Bamenga to eight years in prison after being convicted of two counts of manslaughter. Bamenga’s defense argued she had suffered from postpartum psychosis. The judge allowed the two sentences to run concurrently.