A New York teen is accused of carrying out a horrifying attack inside a trailer home, then calling 911 on himself after it was over. Prosecutors say 18-year-old Noel Bermudez-Chin attacked his grandmother’s fiancé, 61-year-old Joseph Falvo, in East Northport during the early hours of Sunday, March 29.
According to Suffolk County police, officers rushed to a trailer parked in the driveway of a home on Catherine Street at 3:42 a.m. after getting a 911 call about a stabbing. When they got there, they found Falvo had been stabbed multiple times inside the living room. He was taken to Huntington Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
But the details that came out in court made the case even more shocking.
According to courtroom reporting, prosecutors said Bermudez-Chin told police that he first threw boiling oil and boiling water on Falvo while the older man was asleep on the couch. Prosecutors say he then stabbed him to death, later allegedly telling police that he stabbed Falvo five or six times in the back and then again in the stomach.
Police say Bermudez-Chin was the one who called 911. After the attack, officers found him about a mile away on Laurel Hill Road in Northport and arrested him a short time later. He was charged with second-degree murder.
The killing has left even more heartbreak because Falvo had just gotten engaged to Bermudez-Chin’s grandmother, Cecilia Bermudez. Local reporting says the couple became engaged in February and were planning to get married in July. The family had also reportedly been living in the trailer together after a house fire in December 2025.
So far, no motive has been publicly laid out in court. What is clear is that what should have been a quiet night inside a temporary home turned into a brutal killing that stunned the Long Island community.
Bermudez-Chin was arraigned Monday in Central Islip, ordered held without bail, and is due back in court on April 3.