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Man Turns Self In After Allegedly Stabbing Wife To Death In Greeley

Juan Manuel Velasquez-Trinidad (arrested, Greeley Homicide, from Weld Cnty SO)
Juan Manuel Velasquez-Trinidad (credit: Weld County Sheriff's Department)

GREELEY, Colo. (CBS4) - Police say a man walked into the Greeley Police Department and admitted stabbing his wife to death.

Juan Manuel Valasquez-Trinidad, 51, turned himself in Friday afternoon. Officers then rushed to the home located in the 800 block of 31st Avenue where they found the woman, identified as Martha Velasquez, 47, with several stab wounds to her chest. She died a short time later at the hospital.

Velasquez-Trinidad is facing first-degree murder charges.

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