Boyfriend is arrested for stabbing to death Irish barwoman, 41, inside New York City pub in vicious attack that saw him turn the knives on himself
- Sarah McNally, 41, was stabbed in the neck at The Ceili House bar in Queens on Saturday
- Her boyfriend Marcin Pieciak, 36, was arrested and charged Monday after allegedly carrying out the attack
- Witnesses claimed the suspect had a knife in each hand and stabbed himself in the neck before being tasered by police
The boyfriend of an Irish bartender has been arrested after allegedly stabbing her in the neck during an attack in broad daylight in front of shocked customers.
Marcin Pieciak, 36, was arrested Monday and charged with manslaughter after allegedly stabbing 41-year-old Sarah McNally at The Ceili House in Queens, New York City, on Saturday.
A source speculated at the time about the New York Post that McNally’s attacker had a relationship with her, saying, “She was just standing there talking, her boyfriend came in and he just walked in and stabbed her.”
‘Then he tried to stab himself. Horrible. Just terrible.’
Sarah McNally, 41, was stabbed in the neck Saturday at The Ceili House in Queens
Police rushed to the Irish bar Queens around 6.30pm on Saturday after McNally and the alleged attacker both suffered serious knife wounds
Pieciak has also been charged with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon after witnesses claimed he turned the knife on himself during the attack.
Police arrived at the Irish bar at 6.34pm on Saturday and found both McNally and another man with stab wounds to their necks. It was not immediately clear whether this person was Pieciak.
Police were forced to taser the suspected slasher because he allegedly had a knife in each hand and refused to comply with orders to drop the weapons.
Both individuals were taken in critical condition to NYC Health and Hospitals in Elmhurst, where McNally died from her injuries.
McNally, originally from Longford, Ireland, had reportedly lived in New York for ten years and was living with her boyfriend at the time.
Reports say the couple had no history of domestic violence, but the New York Daily News reported that Pieciak had previously been arrested for domestic violence.
No motive has been released for the horror stabbing.
A spokesperson for the NYPD said this Fox news that Pieciak had no history of arrests in New York City.
McNally, who is from Longford, Ireland, reportedly lived with her boyfriend and had no history of domestic violence
Mike Lambe, a 62-year-old who lives nearby, told The Post that McNally was a “sweet, innocent girl from Longford” who had worked at the bar for less than a year.
McNally’s mother Dorrie O’Connor told the Irish Mirror from her home in Longford: ‘My daughter has been murdered. There’s nothing else to say.’
A regular clerk at the Queens watering hole, Mike Green, told the NY Daily News that he knew the couple well, and that he “still can’t believe it.”
“They were (sic) always together,” he said, referring to alleged killer “M” as “cool.”
‘Both. That’s why it surprised me a bit…Sarah is good people. She helps people. Everyone owes her money.”
Longford Municipal District Cathaoirleach Cllr Martin Monahan told the Irish Independent: ‘The residents of Longford will be saddened and shocked by the sudden loss of a young life, one who built a life for himself in New York.’
“As such a young life ends so tragically in such violent circumstances, our thoughts and prayers go out to the people of the Queens borough of New York who met her and her mother and father in Longford, as well as to her extended family.”