Trans Instagram influencer fatally stabbed her father and injured her sister during an argument over a laptop
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A transgender social media influencer arrested in the brutal stabbing death of her father last month committed the murder after an argument over a laptop, prosecutors revealed in court.
At Monday’s hearing, Nikki Secondino, a 22-year-old Instagram model from New York, sent back to Rikers Island, where she has been held without bail since she killed 61-year-old Carlo Secondino late last year.
Along with the fatal attack on her father, Secondino is also accused of seriously stabbing her 19-year-old sister Liana in the back, head and stomach sometime before 6 a.m. on December 29.
A six-count indictment unsealed during Monday’s hearing now reveals that Secondino not only stabbed his father, but bludgeoned him to death as he slept on a couch in the family’s Brooklyn home.
She initially claimed that two men broke into her home and were responsible for the horrific crime, before confessing that she was responsible.
Nikki Secondino, the transgender daughter of Carlo Secondino, is seen in an Instagram photo
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In the Dec. 29 incident, Secondino killed his 61-year-old father Carlo and seriously injured his 19-year-old sister, Liana. He is currently undergoing rehabilitation at the Maimonides Hospital.
The heinous acts, prosecutors wrote, stemmed from an argument the influencer had with her father over a laptop before the Secondino stabbing spree.
“This defendant is accused of brutally killing her own father and then stabbing her younger sister, allegedly following an argument over a laptop computer,” Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a statement.
“My office will vigorously prosecute this horrible case and seek justice for the victims.”
Prosecutors remained silent on the exact details of the argument, but proceeded to provide harrowing new details about the sordid case.
Police had initially suspected the incident was related to a home invasion, due to an account provided by Secondino at the time.
Secondino, who has amassed nearly 16,000 followers on Instagram, was seen smiling at reporters after his arrest in December.
Secondino claimed that two men broke into the Bensonhurst home demanding money from a safe, before fatally attacking his father and stabbing his sister. He also claimed that the couple sexually assaulted her.
However, investigators in Monday’s indictment wrote that Secondino, who was first hospitalized but later arrested, fabricated the story as a ruse to divert blame from her..
Prosecutors wrote how Secondino first ran out to meet police officers called to the scene by Secondino herself.
Secondino had a successful career as a social media influencer, with several paid partnerships.
The crime took place on 17th Avenue near 82nd Street in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn (pictured)
At first, she was hospitalized, but officials wrote that she was soon taken into custody.
After his arrest, Secondino was questioned and soon admitted that he had lied. She proceeded to offer the officers a disturbing confession, in which she admitted that she wanted her family dead after the argument.
I came out of the bedroom and saw my father sitting in [the] sofa sleeping, and I hit [his] enter with [a] hammer,” he allegedly told investigators during the December meeting.
“I grabbed my favorite German steel knife and stabbed him,” he said, according to the complaint.
Carlo (pictured) reportedly supported his daughter, who began the transition when she was just five years old. He was pronounced dead at the scene, after being struck with a hammer and stabbed with his eldest daughter’s ‘favorite German steel knife’.
Liana, who just turned 20, was left with “multiple” stab wounds to her body, hands and face, prosecutors wrote in the indictment. She required surgery but survived. Prosecutors wrote that it was her account that helped them discern that the story her sister initially told them had been a lie.
“My sister came out of her room and tried to stop me,” he added of Liana, who had recently started school at Leigh University in Pennsylvania. I stabbed her in the back, head and stomach. She wanted them dead,’ she said.
The sister was left with “multiple” stab wounds to her body, hands and face, prosecutors wrote in the indictment. She required life-saving surgery, but she survived.
Prosecutors wrote that it was his account, delivered from his bed at Maimonides Hospital, that helped them discern that the story her sister told them initially had been a fabrication.
When the police officers arrived at the scene around 5:30 am, the officers wrote that an injured Liana was the first to meet the arriving officers.
Still conscious and spewing blood, according to the complaint, the then-teenager, who was days shy of her 20th birthday, told police: ‘My sister stabbed me.
heartbreakinglyHe continued and added: ‘Have you seen my dad?’
Meanwhile, Carlo was pronounced dead at the scene. She supported his daughter and his transgender journey, Secondino said in an interview with the United We Rant podcast in 2020.
Secondino initially tried to cover up the alleged crime as a home invasion, calling 911 to report a break-in.
The unsealed indictment went on to note that cops soon became suspicious of Secondino, noting the absence of a safe in the home and the lack of serious injuries to the fashion influencer, who had a successful career on social media and various paid partnerships with multiple fashion and beauty brands.
They would later arrest her after a brief hospital stay and manage to get a confession.
Prosecutors further revealed that police had been called to the home multiple times in the past, with the most recent incident occurring last September.
Law enforcement sources said officers called the house that Carlo slapped Secondino. Meanwhile, family friends said the suspect was lazy and had often frustrated her father, who wanted her to get a more conventional job.
Two months earlier, the police were called to the residence after Carlo allegedly threatened to kill Liana. In a separate incident those same months, Liana was charged with assault and criminal mischief for ripping the blinds off her family’s living room during a fight with Secondino.
The incident prompted the influencer, who sports several sultry photos on her social media accounts, to file a temporary protection order against her family. At the time, Secondino told police that her father was in “the mafia.”
A judge who signed the order later said Carlo was not believed to be connected to the mob.
With his next hearing scheduled for April, Secondino faces charges of second-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault, and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon for the incident, as well as 50 years to life in prison.
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Meanwhile, Liana remains hospitalized and is currently undergoing rehabilitation after a successful surgery. Since then, friends of hers have raised more than $100,000 for the college sophomore to help with her recovery.