The 86-year-old husband is accused of killing his wife, who was found dead in their house.
On Wednesday, 78-year-old Luz Porras was discovered at the bottom of a stairway at their residence in the Queens neighbourhood of New York City. She was unconscious and unresponsive, and her face showed symptoms of trauma.
When police officers showed there at their residence just before 8.30 o’clock in the evening in Woodhaven, her husband Ovido Porras was there.
Ovido was taken into custody for questioning and was charged with murder 24 hours later, the New York Post reported on Friday. He also faces charges for tampering with evidence and criminal contempt.
It was not immediately known how Luz was murdered. Her body has been taken to a medical examiner to determine the cause and manner of death.