The pregnant Upper West Side lawyer killed in a horrific double murder-suicide was in the midst of celebrating the Sabbath when her jealous lover burst in and murdered her.
Debra Silver, 46, was cooking a Shabbat dinner Friday night with an old flame when Michael Ruiz, 55, arrived at her West 93rd Street co-op, a friend told The Post.
Silver, an observant Jew, routinely observed Sabbath on Friday night by staying home and cooking, said the friend.
She would also refuse to answer the buzzer, in keeping with the Jewish custom of avoiding any work on the Sabbath.
The doormen in her building were aware of that, said the pal.
When Ruiz, a married father from Glen Ridge, NJ, entered Silver’s apartment, he became enraged on finding the attractive brunette with Daniel Tedlie, 57.
Silver and Tedlie had had an amicable parting and remained friends.
Ruiz whipped out a 9mm handgun and shot Silver, who was in her first trimester of pregnancy after undergoing in vitro fertilization. She was hit once in the face and once in the chest.
He also killed Tedlie, an East Village photographer, with a single bullet to the chest.
Ruiz died after turning the gun on himself.
The identity of the father of Silver’s unborn child was not known.
The shooting rampage came just eight days after Ruiz’s wife of 29 years filed for divorce.
The couple had two grown children, a son and a daughter.
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