A woman was found dead with her throat slit in a grisly scene in Bay Ridge, according to police and her devastated family.
Maria Santos Flores was found with a cut to her neck at her home on 85th Street near 4th Avenue, according to cops.
The victim’s 17-year-old son, and her sister, Angelica Flores, made the gruesome discovery.
“I came to visit her and found her like this,” the heartbroken sister told The Post, as she stood outside with other family members as the group of relatives wept and hugged. “She had just come home from work.”
Another sister, Daisy Flores, said the family was from El Salvador.
“She liked to help people and she took care of her family,” she said, while crying. “We don’t understand what happened.”
The victim, 36, was a bartender and worked nights at Huatulco Sports Bar in Sunset Park, the family said.
“The police aren’t telling us what happened yet,” her husband Antonio Hernandez said. “We are waiting. We don’t know anything. There is a suspicion that someone followed her home from work.”
The couple has been married for three years. Their two children, 3 and 17, were home at the time of the crime, he said.
“When I took the car this morning to go to work, she hadn’t arrived yet,” he said, explaining that he went to work at 7:30 a.m.
NYPD officers placed yellow evidence markers on items on the sidewalk outside, including one that appeared to be a bloody tissue. Cops also carried evidence bags from the home to an NYPD truck.
The murder marks the first in the NYPD’s 68th Precinct so far this year, according to the department’s crime data. The precinct serves the southwestern portion of Brooklyn, and includes Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights.
The city has seen a 23% drop in murders so far this year, to 111 from 144 at this point in 2025, the data show.
When The Post asked staff members at Huatulco if they knew Flores, they were not sure.
However, when they learned she was Salvadoran, one coworker broke down crying.
“Elli?” she asked in tears.
“We knew her as Elli Flores? She lived on 86th street?”
Bar owner Felipe Ortega said that Flores “never missed a day of work. Not a single day.”
“She was very responsible with her work. Reliable. Kind.”
He explained that her death was akin to “losing someone from your family.”
“Every year, at the end of the year we have a celebration,” Ortega said.
“And we invite everyone. She’d been working here about 3 years.”
Papo Vazquez, a bouncer at Huatulco, told The Post that Flores “was so sweet.”
“She would come out of the cab and say hello to everybody,” he continued, adding that “she was the sweetest girl. She was like a sister.”
“She was a sweetheart,” Nigel Kelly, also a bouncer at Huatulco, said. “I can’t believe this happened.”
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