Adruis Ovalles, 15, stabs and kills his mother's boyfriend Albert Hartzog for cutting off cable

A Bronx teenager, enraged that his mother's live-in boyfriend turned off the cable in their apartment, plunged a kitchen knife into the man's chest, police and relatives said Saturday.

Adruis Ovalles, 15, jabbed the blade into 26-year-old Albert (Matthew) Hartzog's chest three times, ignoring his mother's cries to stop. Blood splattered throughout the tiny but well-kept Walton Ave. apartment as the life seeped out of Hartzog on Friday.

"The kid was mad he couldn't watch TV," said a tearful Amy Hartzog, the victim's aunt.

"I talked to [Hartzog] just before he got stabbed," she said. "He said they were fighting about the cable."

As Albert Hartzog staggered to the apartment hallway and collapsed, Ovalles calmly walked into his bedroom and dropped the knife. He then stood in the doorway of the apartment and waited to be arrested, police said.

Ovalles was charged with murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon, police said. Hartzog, who became a new father just a month ago, died before paramedics could reach the apartment in the Sonia Sotomayor Houses.

I Know it may have been a while since you wrote this.... But do any of you people think about the Family members of the victims who may read these comments. What if I told you that Matthew (the man who as killed) wanted to Marry that women but she would marry him because her mother didn’t want her with a black man, or that she made threats to kill him 3 days before he was killed but wouldn’t leave because he didn’t wanted to be a dead beat dad like his father was. what if I told you that they planned to kill this man and chose to do it the day before his mother’s birthday and the n a grand jury let this young man (the killer) go free, and 3 months after killing that man.... the killers family joked around on Facebook about how they got away with what they did. That man your talking about was my Big Brother and he didn’t deserve to die! No matter how angry they felt they didn’t have to kill him and if you justify Mr. Ovalles’ actions, then I pray for you because you are just as disturbed and Adrius Ovalles and Wanda D. Rodriguez.

God Bless!

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