Woman Stabbed to Death at Nashville Elementary School — and Suspect Is Still on the Run: Police

An employee at a Nashville elementary school was stabbed to death after arriving at work on the morning of April 14.

Niurka Alfonso-Acevedo, 52, had just arrived at her job at Chadwell Elementary School around 6 a.m. when the attack took place, a spokesperson for Metro Nashville Police tells PEOPLE.

Alfonso-Acevedo had been working at the school as a custodian, says the spokesperson.

One of her fellow employees called 911 after arriving at the school and finding her body in the parking lot, according to the MNPD spokesperson.

After investigating the scene, MNPD named the victim’s estranged husband, 54-year-old Candido Raul Rubio-Perez, as a suspect in the case.

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Detectives believe that Rubio-Perez was waiting for Alfonso-Acevedo in the parking lot when she arrived at the school on Monday morning.

MNPD is now searching for Rubio-Perez, who had not been captured as of Tuesday morning, the spokesperson said.

Meanwhile, Metro Nashville Schools announced in a letter to parents that classes would be relocated for the day while the police secured the crime scene.

The killing occurred prior to the start of the school day, and by the time students began to arrive, the district had buses ready to take them to a nearby middle school for classes so police could investigate.

Anyone with information about the crime or the whereabouts of Rubio-Perez is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 615-862-7329.