Son Accused of Killing Deli Owner Parents Allegedly Sliced Mom's Windpipe and Stabbed Dad with 14-Inch Chef's Knife By Samira Asma-Sadeque

A 30-year-old man has been indicted after his elderly parents, beloved deli owners in their New York neighborhood, were found brutally stabbed inside the store they operated for three decades.

Angela Pulisciano, 62, and husband Antonio D’Ambrosio, 70, were killed in front of their customers at the A&A Italian Deli on Dec. 5 in Bethpage, N.Y., the Nassau County District Attorney’s office said in a statement this month.

The couple’s son Vito D’Ambrosio was arrested outside the deli after police responded to the scene. (Police spell the family name as Dambrosio but an obituary and a GoFundMe set up by family refer to them as D’Ambrosio).

Pulisciano and Antonio were working at their A&A Italian Deli, serving their customers, when they were viciously “attacked,” the DA’s office said in its statement.

Around 9:11 a.m. on the morning of their killings, Vito arrived at the business and allegedly began stabbing Angela with a 14-inch chef’s knife before attacking Antonio with the same weapon, according to the DA’s office.

After allegedly carrying out the slayings, Vito called 911 to report the incident and waited for police outside the store.

When emergency personnel arrived, they found Pulisciano behind the counter. Antonio was also found in the counter area, but authorities allege he had been stabbed in the kitchen area before his body was dragged to that spot.

Both had stab wounds in their neck area, and Pulisciano’s windpipe had been sliced, the DA’s office said. Emergency personnel pronounced them dead at the scene.

Police arrested Vito, whose clothes were covered with his parents’ blood.

Pulisciano and Antonio, authorities say, had kicked Vito out of the house prior to the killings. He was living out of a car after he got out of jail in a pending criminal case.

With no job or a place to stay, “his simmering anger finally boiled over,” resulting in the gruesome attack on his parents, the DA’s office alleged.

During his arraignment on Jan. 6, the 911 call record was played where Vito was heard telling the operator he had “confessed to everything on TikTok,” ABC 7 NY reported.

He has pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder, per the DA’s office.

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Pulisciano and Antonio were pillars in the community who operated their deli for 30 years, the DA’s office said.

Messages written on an online obituary for the couple showed the impact they had on their local community.

“This place was just different, every meal was made with love,” wrote Hanna Akbik, who has been going to the deli since she was a child and says Pulisciano never forgot her, even after she grew up.

“One way I will carry on their legacy forever is to make people feel like they’re welcome, make people feel like they belong, uplift others in your own community,” Akbik wrote.

“How many delicious meals did they prepare for all of us? Uncountable,” wrote Brian O. “It was my privilege to know them.

A GoFundMe has been set up to assist the couple’s other children as they navigate the loss.