A Queens man fatally slit his estranged wife’s throat in front of her terrified young daughter — and was nabbed after cops tracked his bloody trail for three blocks, law-enforcement sources said today.
“My stepfather stabbed my mom,” the stricken 9-year-old daughter of victim Diane Sharma told cops at their home on 117th Street in Jamaica.
Sources said Sharma, a 32-year-old mother of three whose two younger children also were at home at the time, had had an order of protection against her Ukrainian husband.
The man, who was not immediately identified, had been arrested Sept. 2 for allegedly assaulting and choking his wife, who then took out the restraint against him.
But he violated the order the very next day, sources said. It’s unclear whether he was kept any time behind bars for the incident.
The suspect is accused of slashing Sharma’s neck and stabbing her in the chest before fleeing.
“When we found her, she was lying on a bed with a knife sticking out of her neck,” one police source said of Sharma, a native of Guyana who worked as a home-health aide.
Cops responding to a report of an assault inside the home around 1 a.m. spotted a trail of blood leading down the block. They tracked it and found the blood-soaked husband three blocks away on 115th Street, with cuts to his hands and arms.
A neighbor said the warring couple regularly engaged in violent blowups.
“He stabbed her because she wanted a divorce,” said the resident, who asked not to be identified. “They fight always, both at each other. They’re always crying, yelling, cursing at each other.”
Sharma had two sons, a 3- and 4-year-old, in addition to her daughter, but they did not witness the bloodbath, sources said.
The suspect was taken to Jamaica Hospital and will likely be transferred to Bellevue Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation, authorities said.
Additional reporting by Kevin Sheehan