Angel Carrasco

Introduction

Angel Carrasco is a 31-year-old Bronx man charged with murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, attempted manslaughter and assault after, police say, he threw his 23-year-old girlfriend Nathaly Ramirez — and the couple’s 8-month-old daughter, clutched in her arms — from the 15th-floor balcony of her Allerton apartment building before dawn on October 6, 2026. Ramirez was killed; the baby survived the fall and remains hospitalized. After a nearly two-day manhunt, Carrasco was arrested at a friend’s apartment on October 7 and was led smiling from a Bronx police station in shackles to face arraignment on October 9 — the moment that put his face, and his record of prior domestic-violence arrests involving the same woman, on front pages across New York. The case has kept its grip on the city since: the baby, Angel Novalty, has been transferred to Cohen Children’s Medical Center in Queens after taking a turn for the worse, and roughly 200 mourners held a vigil outside the building where Ramirez died.

Background Information

Carrasco was in an on-and-off relationship with Nathaly Ramirez, a Bronx Leadership Academy graduate who studied psychology at Baruch College and worked at Lishawn Consulting in Manhattan, where a representative described her as “a rising star” and “very hardworking.” Together they had a daughter, Angel Novalty Carrasco-Ramirez, born in early 2026. The relationship, according to police and neighbors, was acrimonious and marked by repeated police contact: Carrasco was arrested twice in January 2026 after confrontations with Ramirez — first on January 5, when he was charged with misdemeanor assault for allegedly slapping her, and again three days later in a since-sealed case after he allegedly broke into her apartment. Law-enforcement sources told the New York Post that on the night of the killing he arrived at her apartment with flowers in an attempt to reconcile after those two domestic-violence busts.

He had also previously been arrested for allegedly sending threatening text messages to another ex-girlfriend, according to the New York Post. A 16th-floor neighbor, Nancy Morales, told the Daily News she overheard Ramirez on the phone in January confiding that she wanted out: “She wanted to get away from here — she wanted to get away from him. She said, ‘I can’t take it anymore.’”

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Charged, not adjudicated. The claims in this section come from NYPD statements, court charging documents described in press accounts, and statements by law-enforcement sources. Carrasco has been charged but not tried: nothing here is a finding of guilt, and he is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.

Shortly before 3:40 a.m. on October 6, 2026, Carrasco and Ramirez were heard arguing loudly on the terrace of her 15th-floor apartment at the Allerville Arms, 2550 Olinville Avenue. Morales, the neighbor, told the Daily News she heard a male voice shout “You want me to do it? You want me to do it?” while Ramirez, holding the baby, told him to stop and that he was scaring the baby. When the flowers-and-reconciliation gesture failed, law-enforcement sources told the New York Post, Carrasco allegedly flew into a rage and threw Ramirez and their daughter off the balcony before fleeing. Another neighbor told the Post she heard a woman wailing “No, please, no!” before a thud — “It sounded like she was begging for an inevitable thing not to happen.”

Ramirez and the baby were found in the courtyard behind the building around 3:30 a.m. with injuries “consistent with a fall from an elevated position.” Investigators initially described the case as a fall, then said they determined both had been shoved and named Carrasco — Ramirez’s boyfriend or ex-boyfriend — as the suspect. Ramirez, 23, was pronounced dead at Jacobi Hospital. The 8-month-old was rushed into the same hospital in critical condition; the Daily News reported she survived because her mother held onto and shielded her during the plunge.

The NYPD released a wanted poster on October 7 calling Carrasco armed and dangerous. After an acquaintance tipped police to where he was hiding, US Marshals and NYPD officers arrested him at a friend’s apartment in the same neighborhood around 10:20 p.m. on October 7. He was charged with murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, attempted manslaughter and assault.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The image that fixed the case in the public eye came on October 9, as Carrasco was walked out of the 49th Precinct stationhouse in shackles for transfer to Bronx Criminal Court: heckled by a crowd shouting “Coward! Coward!” and “I hope they f—ing kill your ass in jail,” he “showed no remorse” and smiled widely at the crowd, the New York Post reported — a smile bystander Moses Hernandez matched to the man he says he saw leaving the scene laughing on the night of the fall. “Right now, I’m happy they caught him,” Hernandez told the Post. The Daily News described the same moment: heckled by supporters of the victim as he was led to a police vehicle, “Carrasco responded wordlessly with a wide smile.”

Not everyone placed the blame on Carrasco alone: Brianna Rios, a 24-year-old domestic-violence survivor who had once been consoled by Ramirez, told the vigil the systems around her friend had already failed — the police were called to Nathaly’s home “over five times,” she said, and the man now charged with killing her “was arrested two times – once for slapping her, the second time for breaking and entering into her home… Not only was he able to get next to her again, he was able to kill her.”

Neighbors who watched the investigation unfold described a woman trying to escape the relationship in her final months. Ramirez’s employer remembered her as a rising star. The case drew wide coverage as the latest in a line of New York domestic-violence killings preceded by earlier arrests — Carrasco had been arrested twice in the nine months before the killing, both times after confrontations with the woman he is now charged with murdering.

Current Status

Carrasco’s arraignment remained pending in Bronx Criminal Court as of October 10, per the New York Post — he was taken to Jacobi Hospital for a medical evaluation after his arrest, and no plea had been entered in the public record; the charges are accusations and he is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. The couple’s 8-month-old daughter is no longer at Jacobi: after briefly upgrading to stable condition on October 8, per Gothamist, she took a turn for the worse and was transferred to Cohen Children’s Medical Center in Queens, where a hospital insider told the Post she is “not doing well” and staff are “keeping their fingers crossed.” On October 10, around 200 mourners gathered for a vigil outside the building where Ramirez and her baby were pushed, sponsored by We All Really Matter (WARM), a group that helps cover funerals for domestic-violence victims, and chanted “Justice for Nataly” as Ramirez’s mother told the crowd her daughter “loved honestly” and “hugged with a tenderness that only had peace.”

Impact on Their Career/Life

Carrasco, at 31, now faces a murder charge carrying the possibility of life imprisonment, with the January domestic-violence arrests and a prior arrest for allegedly threatening another ex-girlfriend forming the record prosecutors can be expected to build on. The child at the center of the case will grow up without her mother; Ramirez’s family and employer have described a young woman whose future was cut short by a relationship she had told a confidant she could no longer endure. For the Bronx neighborhood where it happened, the case has become another marker in the city’s continuing argument over bail, repeat domestic-violence offenders and the protections available to women like Ramirez before the violence turns fatal.

Sources

New York Post, “Monster accused of pushing girlfriend, baby off NYC balcony flashes demonic grin as he’s hauled away by cops,” Oct. 8, 2026 — source
New York Daily News, “Suspect arrested for murder for pushing girlfriend and infant off 15th-floor Bronx balcony,” Oct. 8, 2026 — source
Gothamist, “Man who pushed his baby and her mother from a Bronx balcony arrested for murder, NYPD says,” Oct. 8, 2026 — source
FOX 5 NY, “Bronx man arrested after mother, baby pushed from balcony, NYPD says,” Oct. 9, 2026 — source
New York Post, “Baby thrown from NYC balcony clings to life as vigil held for slain Bronx mom,” Oct. 10, 2026 — source
@nypost, X post on the baby’s failing health and the vigil, Oct. 11, 2026 — source
@nypost, X post announcing the arrest and perp walk, Oct. 9, 2026 — source