A city schoolteacher was found stabbed to death in her Staten Island home Thursday.
Cops said 29-year-old Simeonette Mapes-Crupi may have been the victim of a home invasion-style robbery, cops said.
Her husband, Jonathan Crupi, also a teacher, said he found her face down on the floor in the duplex condo they shared on Forest Hill Road in the quiet New Springville section, police said.
She had been stabbed over and over, and the house was in disarray.
"He's like, "She's dead! I came home! It was hot! She was dead! She's dead! She's dead! It was hot! I wasn't here. I had to work!” a female witness told the Daily News.
"It was very, very weird.”
Another neighbor, Rachel Havia, 43, said Mapes-Crupi recently celebrated a birthday. “Her husband brought her flowers and balloons,” she said.
On Thursday, she said she saw him outside screaming, “my wife was murdered!”
Havia said word in the Golf Green Manor condo complex was that victim had been stabbed as many as 40 times in the head. Police did not confirm the report.
Havia said there are no security cameras in the quiet complex near the LaTourette Golf Course.
A large crowd of friends and relatives of the victim gathered in front of condo unit around 2 p.m. One man, who said the victim was his niece, screamed at the media gathered to turn off their cameras, and had to be calmed down by a police officer.
Mapes-Crupi began working in city schools as a social studies teacher in 2006 and has taught at several Brooklyn schools.
Since 2009 she has been a teacher at an East New York high school called School for Classics: An Academy of Thinkers, Writers and Performers. Her husband teaches English at the same school.
Mapes-Crupi was supposed to start teaching summer school on Monday, police said.
The school made headlines this year when teacher Jessica Osborne quit after a student boasted on Facebook that she made out with the teacher in her car.
The only public post on Mapes-Crupi’s Facebook page is from a week ago, when she wrote that she and her husband has “survived a shootout today.”
She said she was referring to gunplay at the Cypress Hills Houses, next to the school in Brooklyn.
“Thank God we are ok, I'm sure over summer school we'll find out what the fighting was about,” she wrote.
“To all the wanna be gangstas of Staten Island (who say they are from Brooklyn but really aren't), be grateful you have what you have and stop trying to live a lifestyle you will never understand.”
After her friends expressed shock, she wrote, “Its just a hazard of working in East NY, Brooklyn. Things like this makes you appreciate all the blessings you have.”
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
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