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Man kills wife, leaps off 7 train platform

A Sunnyside man fatally stabbed his wife this morning before leaping off an elevated train platform along Queens Boulevard.

The domestic assault happened after 8 a.m. near 39th Place and 47th Avenue in Sunnyside, police said. The woman was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead.

Later in the morning, the husband leapt off the platform of the No. 7 train at 40th Street, according to authorities.

The suspect was taken to Elmhurst Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.