cheated on her, allegedly murdered their two kids —
poisoning them, then sealing their Bronx
apartment's windows with plastic before turning on
the gas, sources told The Post yesterday.
Lissette Bamenga, 29 — who slit her wrists in a
suicide attempt during the Thursday horror —
believed Officer Trevor Noel had gotten another
woman pregnant, and she allegedly wanted to
punish him by killing 5-year-old Trevor Jr. and Liliane,
who was just 4 months old, the sources said.
The children were declared dead at the scene.
Bamenga was rushed to Jacobi Hospital, where she
remained in stable condition.
"You got what you wanted," she allegedly wrote in
one of two suicide notes. "Me and the kids are in a
better place now."
Bamenga also wrote "DNR," meaning "do not
resuscitate," for whoever found her in the gas-filled
apartment at 1500 Noble Ave. in Parkchester.
Noel, who had just finished the night shift at
Manhattan's 28th Precinct, was unable to speak
when he arrived at the scene.
Sources said Bamenga believed her husband
fathered a child with a woman in Spain — and she
was furious.
"In a jealous rage, his wife killed her children and
then tried to kill herself," a law-enforcement source
said.
The ghastly final act, however, appeared carefully
thought out.
First, Bamenga allegedly fed her kids juice spiked
with a de-icer, which is colorless, odorless, sweet —
and deadly. Police found a bottle containing de-icer in
the apartment.
Then she slashed her wrists. But the wounds weren't
deep enough to be fatal.
Finally, she allegedly sealed off the windows of the
ninth-floor apartment with plastic sheets and turned
on the gas burners of the kitchen stove.
At around 11 p.m., another tenant called 911 to
report the heavy smell of gas.
Firefighters knocked down the door, and EMS
workers administered CPR to the 5-year-old on the
floor of the apartment hallway, said Davis Rodriguez,
17, who lives on the same floor.
Another neighbor, Gwen Richardson, 71, said she
saw Bamenga in the hallway surrounded by
firefighters who were trying to get her to respond.
"I could hear them going, 'Miss, Miss, can you hear
me?' " Richardson said.
Bamenga, originally from France, moved to the
United States from the Democratic Republic of the
Congo about 12 years ago and eventually married
Noel, 31.
Bamenga taught at PS 58 in The Bronx from 2005 to
2006 before giving birth to Trevor Jr. She returned to
work, teaching at Brooklyn's PS 58 last year while
pregnant with their daughter.
Additional reporting by Kevin Fasick, Rebecca
Harshbarger and Dakota Debellis
jamie.schram@nypost.com
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