LINDENHURST MAN INDICTED FOR FATALLY STABBING HIS WIFE IN FRONT OF THEIR TEENAGED SON

(SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y.) – Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney today announced the indictment of Ryszard Murawski, 44, of Lindenhurst, accused of Murder in the Second Degree and Aggravated Criminal Contempt for fatally stabbing his wife, Wioleta Murawski in her backyard after violating an order of protection which had been issued in her favor a week earlier.

“The sheer horror that young man must have felt to witness his mother being attacked is unfathomable,” said District Attorney Tierney. “The brutality of this defendant’s alleged actions are only made worse by the fact that he attacked the mother of his child in front of that child. Now, he will be held to account for his actions.”

According to the investigation, on January 3, 2024, at approximately 8:33 p.m., Suffolk County Police received a 911 call from the couple’s 15-year-old son stating that his father, Ryszard Murawski, had stabbed his mother, Wioleta Murawski, and had fled in a black GMC pick-up truck. The teen, distraught during the duration of the call, begged the police for help as he desperately tried to save his mother’s life. The young man informed police that when he returned home from his friend’s house, he heard his mother screaming for help in the backyard. He said that he then ran to the back yard where he saw Murawski stabbing his mother with a large, serrated knife.

The boy jumped on his father and struggled with him until his mother was able to break free. Wioleta Murawski was able to stumble across the street before collapsing with her son by her side. She was transported to Good Samaritan Hospital where she was pronounced deceased.

Murawski then fled in a black GMC pick-up truck and when police attempted to stop him, he refused to pull over and a chase ensued. Multiple police units chased Murawski with lights and sirens, for more than seven miles, before he lost control of his vehicle and crashed into the side of a building.

Murawski’s home surveillance system captured his brutal attack on his wife. A knife was recovered from the vicinity of the murder and a substantial amount of blood was found in the area of the attack that trailed from that area to across the street, where the victim collapsed.

Murawski is charged with one count of Murder in the Second Degree, a Class B felony and one count of Aggravated Criminal Contempt, a Class D felony, for stabbing his wife to death, in violation of an order of protection which had been issued in her favor a week earlier.

On January 18, 2024, at his arraignment on the indictment, Acting Supreme Court Justice, the Honorable Karen M. Wilutis remanded Murawski Murawski is being represented by Keith O’Halloran, Esq. His next court date is February 7, 2024.

This case is prosecuted by ADA Sheetal Shetty of the Homicide Bureau with investigative assistance from Detective Adam Quinones of the Suffolk County Police Department.

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