Overview

• Franklin Batallas, 44, was charged Friday with murder, assault and weapons possession in the Sept. 17 killing, according to police cited by the New York Daily News.
• Anthonella Contreras Linarez, 30, was stabbed multiple times near Park Drive and City Island Road and later died at Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital, police said.
• Batallas had claimed two men on a moped attacked as he stopped to urinate, but investigators now reject that account.
• Detectives were skeptical early in the probe, noting limited camera coverage near the reported scene, and the exact location of the killing remained unclear.
• Batallas suffered arm wounds and drove both to the hospital, and earlier reports had described the case as an active investigation with no arrests.