Cops say that Stephen Bolt, of 1690 E. 174th Street, The Bronx, killed Dawn Monaco -- his live-in girlfriend -- and arrested him today on murder charges, according to a New York Police Department statement. 
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Saturday's murder count began just one hour and 44 minutes into the day, with the stabbing death of Elmer Augusto Lopez, 24, at 238 Knickerbocker Avenue in Brooklyn, pictured above.
The NYPD's bulletin on the incident indicates just one stab wound to the torso, and no arrest has been made. Know Elmer? Let us know something about him in the comments.
Meanwhile, a few hours later, there was a shooting in the Bronx...
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This weekend marked a disturbing surge in gun violence, in which at least 48 people were shot in the city. Most recently, last night, two cops were wounded in a gunfight in Crown Heights, and three people were killed -- one of them a 56-year-old woman named Denise Gay, who was hit in the head by a stray bullet while sitting on a nearby stoop with her adult daughter. 
There's more news in the brutal murder of East Village man Joseph Shay, 43, and 2-year-old Gregory Bosco Erdmann, which occurred over the weekend at the Shay's Bechtelsville, Pennsylvania, country house. The Shay family, including Paul, his wife, Monica, and his nephew Joseph, who all live in the East Village, had been staying there over the weekend along with Joseph's girlfriend, Kathryn Erdmann, who is Gregory's mother. It was there that Mark Geisenheyner, 51, a career criminal who had been plotting revenge against Paul Shay over an alleged insurance-fraud scam in 2006, opened fire on Saturday night, shooting all of them in the head and killing Joseph and Gregory.
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• A passenger jet carrying 52 people crashed in Russia last night, killing 44 perople on board. The plane was a RusAir Tupolev-134; it crashed into a highway near Besovets airport in northern Russian in thick fog. Experts are blaming the spate of recent air disasters in Russia on "aging jets, poor pilot training and lax government oversight." [NYT]
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• There was a fatal shooting at 85 Pitt Street, between Rivington and Stanton, on the Lower East Side last night. The NYPD says that Jonathan Alston, a 23-year old man from Brooklyn, was shot in the head and killed around 12:30 a.m. [The Lo-Down]
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After the jump: Updates on the case about the suspect, a "Russian 'Rambo'" who served in the Russian Army special ops, his departure to Russia, his chance of being apprehended, and the apartment he left "full of empty booze bottles." 
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As New York legislators advocate for a domestic violence registry, there comes news of another brutal murder in the city, with the boyfriend of one of the victims being sought by police as a "person of interest." Larisa Prikhodko, 28, and her mother, Tatyana Prikhodko, 56, were found fatally stabbed in their apartment in Sheepshead Bay this morning. Larisa was a nurse who worked at Mount Sinai and the mother of a three-year-old son; her mother, Tatyana, was a nurse at Brookdale Hospital. The two both worked in maternity units, reports the New York Post.
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On Monday night Hassan Malik, 55, was charged with the strangling death of 28-year-old Betty Williams, who worked as a prostitute and whose body was found by an unlucky passerby after it was stuffed into a suitcase and left on a Harlem Street. Malik is claiming that the murder was self-defense. 
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