Otoniel Feliz, 32, and his wife Zoila Dominici, 34, live in the Bronx, New York City, New York, United States. In 2018, they moved from the Dominican Republic to the U.S.
In 2019, Otoniel, Zoila and their children moved to an apartment in the Bronx. In 2022, she gave birth to her fifth child Nicholas Feliz Dominici .
Otoniel and Zoila’s apartment is near Divino Nino Day Care on Morris Avenue in Kingsbridge in the Bronx. Owned by Grei Mendez de Ventura, 36, the home-based child care site opened under the official authority of the New York State Office of Children and Family Services.
Grei Mendez, Carlisto Acevedo’s arrests
Mendez and her husband Felix Herrera Garcia lived next door to the daycare while his cousin Carlisto Acevedo Brito, 41, lived in the basement of the daycare, which was actually a front for drugs. In May 2023, the daycare received its license and on September 9, 2023, it passed an annual unannounced inspection with zero violations.
On September 11, 2023, Nicholas started attending the daycare. On September 15, 2023, he was at the daycare with two other boys, both 2, and a girl born in January 2022, and later that day, the four children were taken to Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx after being exposed to fentanyl at the daycare.
As the children were suffering from fentanyl exposure, Herrera ran out of the daycare with heavy shopping bags, which was captured by a surveillance camera. Nicholas was pronounced dead at the hospital while the three other children are in stable condition.
Renny Parra, Felix Herrera’s arrests
On September 16, 2023, Mendez and Acevedo were arrested. They were each charged with depraved-indifference murder, manslaughter of a person under 11 years old, manslaughter recklessly causing death, criminal possession of narcotics, three counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance, four counts of endangering the welfare of a child, four counts assault causing injury through risk of death, four counts of assault causing injury during a felony, four counts of assault causing serious injury and four counts of reckless assault causing serious injury.
On September 23, 2023, Renny Antonio Parra Paredes was arrested in connection with the daycare drug operation and charged in federal court with conspiracy to distribute narcotics. On September 25, 2023, he appeared in federal court in Manhattan, New York City and was ordered to be held without bail.
On September 26, 2023, Herrera was arrested on a bus in Sinaloa, Mexico. He is also from the Dominican Republic like Nicholas’s parents.
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